Perks & Benefits:
- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 50 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
Tasks
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Train horses
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Manure spreader
- Tillage equipment
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Manure handling and storage
Area of specialization
- Cattle breeding
Animal specialization
- Thoroughbred horses
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Overtime required
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
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