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Form of work
SalaryOverview
Languages
Bilingual
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Will train
Work site environment
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Outdoors
- Hot
- Odours
- Horse breeding
Work setting
- Rural area
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals
- Diagnose livestock health issues
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Groom horses in preparation for competitions and shows
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Perform livestock feeding
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Train horses
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Tractor
- Manure spreader
Area of specialization
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
Animal specialization
- Thoroughbred horses
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
Personal suitability
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Quick learner
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- Other benefits
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week
