Overview
Languages
English or French
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Perform livestock feeding
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Treat livestock health issues
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Select livestock for sale
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Maintain work records and logs
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Perform general farm duties
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
Personal suitability
