Dairy Herdsperson

On-site dairy herdsperson position.

• Diagnose livestock health issues
• Direct farm feed inventory activities
• Handling animals
• Monitor the calving process
• Monitoring animal health
• Organize tasks to accomplish the work
• Perform animal grooming activities
• Perform livestock feeding
• Track and report on current feed inventory
• Treat livestock health issues
• Harvest crops
• Feed and tend animals
• Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
• Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs
• Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
• Formulate feeding program
• Maintain livestock performance records
• Maintain quality control and production records
• Milk cows
• Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
• Maintain work records and logs
• Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
• Perform general farm duties
• Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
• Prevent and treat lameness by hoof trimming
• Conduct artificial insemination and spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses