Livestock Farm Workers

Key Tasks

• •Patrolling, inspecting and reporting on the condition of livestock
• •Providing livestock with feed and water
• •Assisting with maintaining the health and welfare of livestock
• •Mustering and droving livestock to milking and shearing sheds and between paddocks to ensure sufficient feed is available
• •Washing and cleaning udders, and attaching milking machines to udders and milking cows
• •Collecting eggs and placing in incubators
• •Herding sheep for shearing and keeping mobs separate during shearing
• •Spreading fleeces on skirting tables for classing, pressing wool and branding bales
• •Exercising horses by walking, riding, leading and swimming, and attending to horses at track work, barrier trials and races
• •Cleaning stables and hatcheries, storing bedding and performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings and fences
• •Assembling, preparing and storing horse gear

Employment Projections to 2034