632-Subsistence livestock farmers

Job Title ( International classification ): 
Subsistence livestock farmers
ISCO Code: 
632
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 -

  • cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock
  • monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition
  • grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
  • herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies
  • raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them
  • breeding animals and helping with animal births
  • slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale
  • carrying out some processing of animal products
  • building and maintaining houses and other shelters
  • making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household
  • fetching water and gathering firewood
  • buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Inclusions: 

Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit groups:

6320 Subsistence livestock farmers