farm labourer – livestock

Work site environment

• Chicken farming
• Dry pea and bean farming
• Fruit and vegetable combination farming
• Organic farming
• Other poultry farming
• Outdoors
• Dusty
• Hot
• Noisy
• Odours
• Wet/damp
• Cold/refrigerated
• All weather conditions
• Dirty

Work setting

• Rural area
• Staff accommodation available
• Staff accommodation provided
• Remote location
• Room and board provided
• Willing to relocate

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Develop specific plans to prioritize
• Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Formulate feeding program
• Maintain livestock performance records
• Maintain quality control and production records
• Select livestock for sale
• Maintain work records and logs
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Perform general farm duties
• Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
• Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry
• Apply fertilizers
• Clean work area
• Monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning/training paid by employer
• On-site amenities
• On-site housing options
• On-site recreation and activities
• Transportation provided by employer
• Parking available