United States
6320-Subsistence livestock farmers
Job Title:
Subsistence livestock farmers
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:
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.
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Source Of Info:
Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2306