United States
6320-Subsistence livestock farmers
Job Title ( International classification ):
Subsistence livestock farmers
ISCO Code:
6320
Job Description:
Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
Tasks:
Main Tasks include -
- (a) cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock
- (b) monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition
- (c) grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
- (d) herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies
- (e) raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them
- (f) breeding animals and helping with animal births
- (g) slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale
- (h) carrying out some processing of animal products
- (i) building and maintaining houses and other shelters
- (j) making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household
- (k) fetching water and gathering firewood
- (l) buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Inclusions:
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Subsistence cattle farmer
Exclusions:
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Livestock farm labourer - 9212
- Mixed crop and livestock farm labourers - 9213
- Water and firewood collector ? 9624
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