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Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who cares for horses and mules to protect their health and improve their appearance. Respnsibilities include: * Waters animals and measures, mixes and apportions feed and feed supplements according to feeding instructions. * Washes, brushes, trims and curries animals' coats to clean and improve their appearance. * Inspects animals for disease, illness, and injury and treats animals according to instructions. * Cleans animals' quarters and replenishes bedding. * Exercises animals. * Unloads and stores feed and supplies. * May whitewash stables, using brush. * May clean saddles and bridles. * May saddle animals. * May shoe animals. * May be designated according to animal cared for as Horse Tender; Mule Tender; Stallion Keeper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks on dairy farm. Respnsibilities include: * Washes and sprays cows with water, insecticides, and repellants. * Flushes, brushes, and scrapes refuse from walls and floors to minimize infestation. * Examines cows and reports estrus, injuries, and disease to supervisor. * Administers prescribed treatments and reports problems requiring veterinary attention to supervisor. * Weighs, loads, mixes, and distributes feed. * Replaces bedding in stalls. * Herds cows from milking parlor to pasture. * Loads animals to be sold onto trucks. * Cleans and sterilizes milk containers and equipment, and tends pumps that automatically clean milk pipelines. * Milks cows by hand and using milking machine. * Cultivates, harvests, and stores feed crops, using farm equipment, such as trucks and tractors. * May build and maintain fences and farm facilities. * May repair and lubricate equipment and machinery. * May maintain data, such as breeding and cost records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks on dairy farm. Respnsibilities include: * Washes and sprays cows with water, insecticides, and repellants. * Flushes, brushes, and scrapes refuse from walls and floors to minimize infestation. * Examines cows and reports estrus, injuries, and disease to supervisor. * Administers prescribed treatments and reports problems requiring veterinary attention to supervisor. * Weighs, loads, mixes, and distributes feed. * Replaces bedding in stalls. * Herds cows from milking parlor to pasture. * Loads animals to be sold onto trucks. * Cleans and sterilizes milk containers and equipment, and tends pumps that automatically clean milk pipelines. * Milks cows by hand and using milking machine. * Cultivates, harvests, and stores feed crops, using farm equipment, such as trucks and tractors. * May build and maintain fences and farm facilities. * May repair and lubricate equipment and machinery. * May maintain data, such as breeding and cost records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shears wool from live sheep, using power-driven clippers or hand shears. Respnsibilities include: * Places animal in shearing station. * Clips wool close to hide so that fleece is removed in one piece and exercises care to nick or cut skin as little as possible. * Herds shorn animal into runway leading to pen. * Oils and sharpens clippers and shears. * May tie fleece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that milks dairy cows. Respnsibilities include: * Guides cow into stanchion and washes teats and udder of cow with disinfectant. * Squeezes cow's teat to collect sample of milk in strainer cup and examines sample for curd and blood. * Starts milking machine and attaches cups of machine to teats of cow. * Removes cups when required amount of milk is obtained from cow. * Dips cups of machine into disinfectant solution after each cow is milked. * Pumps milk from receptacles into storage tank and cleans and sterilizes equipment. * May notify farm manager of possible diseases or problems in milking cows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that milks dairy cows. Respnsibilities include: * Guides cow into stanchion and washes teats and udder of cow with disinfectant. * Squeezes cow's teat to collect sample of milk in strainer cup and examines sample for curd and blood. * Starts milking machine and attaches cups of machine to teats of cow. * Removes cups when required amount of milk is obtained from cow. * Dips cups of machine into disinfectant solution after each cow is milked. * Pumps milk from receptacles into storage tank and cleans and sterilizes equipment. * May notify farm manager of possible diseases or problems in milking cows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds and ties wool fleece into bundle for sacking or grading. Respnsibilities include: * Removes heavy tags, dung locks, and badly stained wool from fleece. * Spreads fleece on floor with hide side up. * Folds loose ends inside and rolls fleece into compact bundle, tying bundle with twisted wool or paper twine. * Tosses bundle aside for sacking or grading. * May shear sheep.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attends herd of goats. Respnsibilities include: * Herds goats from corral to fresh pastures. * Assists does during kidding season.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who skins small fur-bearing animals, such as foxes, weasels, mink, and muskrats, for their pelts, using skinning knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who skins small fur-bearing animals, such as foxes, weasels, mink, and muskrats, for their pelts, using skinning knife.
Industry:Professional careers