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Farm Worker - Livestock

Employer

Adh Mor Ranch

Date Posted

January 04, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Ponoka, AB
  • Earnings $15.65 hourly
  • Work Hours 35 to 50 hours per week
  • Position Seasonal Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Feb 14, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Adh Mor Ranch

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Hay farming
  • Livestock combination farming
  • Other miscellaneous animal farming
  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Wet/damp

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Remote location

Tasks

  • Handling animals
  • Marking livestock as proof of ownership
  • Monitor the calving process
  • Monitoring animal health
  • Perform animal grooming activities
  • Track and report on current feed inventory
  • Weaning
  • Feed and tend animals
  • Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
  • Train horses
  • Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
  • Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
  • Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Feeding and watering system
  • Fertilizer applicator
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Tractor
  • Farm truck
  • Forage equipment
  • Haying equipment
  • Lift truck
  • Manure spreader
  • Tillage equipment

Automated systems experience

  • Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
  • Manure handling and storage

Area of specialization

Cattle breeding

Animal specialization

Thoroughbred horses

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Overtime required
  • Sound discrimination
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Farm Worker - Livestock is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

General Farm Workers
METHODICAL

Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops

OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment

innovative

Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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