Livestock Farm Workers

Livestock Farm Workers perform routine tasks in livestock, egg and wool production.

What the job involves

• 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