Job Description

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Attend to live farm animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, and other equines to keep them fed and healthy .
• Duties will include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals.
• Perform slashing and chemical spraying activities to ensure weed control.
• Perform harvesting activities by using equipment such as harvesters and tractors.
• Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain and report any observations immediately.
• Ensure that operational areas and clean and maintained.
• Clear away animal waste and clean and sterilize farm equipment.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair, buildings, pens, yards, fences and ensure constant maintenance.
• Adjust and repair farm machinery and notify supervisor in the event of a malfunction.
• Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations; or insecticides as appropriate
• Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
• Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps.
• May clean and maintain animal housing areas.
• Move equipment, livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks.
• Segregate animals according to weight, age, and physical condition.
• Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
• Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
• Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps.

Arkansas State University