Dairy Herdsperson
1 week ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
**Work site environment**:
- Dangerous
- Dusty
- Odours
- Outdoors
- Dairy
- Harvest crops
- Wet/damp
**Work setting**:
- Rural area
- Staff accommodation available
**Tasks**:
- Farm animal grooming
- Feed inventory
- Handling animals
- Monitoring animal health
- Soil fertility programs
- Assist in the development and implementation of farm safety and bio-security procedures
- Provide agricultural livestock services such as artificial insemination, spraying or shearing of livestock or disinfecting pens, barns or poultry houses
- Co-ordinate and supervise the work of general farm workers and harvesting labourers
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed
- Formulate feeding program
- Maintain livestock performance records
- Maintain quality control and production records
- Recognize and treat certain livestock health problems
- Maintain work records and logs
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Perform general farm duties
- Feed and tend animals
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Milk cows
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
**Supervision**:
- 1 to 2 people
**Equipment and machinery experience**:
- Automated manure handling or storage system
- Bulk handling system
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Milking system (automated)
- Storage and silage system
- Tractor
- Swather
- Manure spreader
- Loader
- Forage equipment
- Farm truck
- Combine harvester
**Automated systems experience**:
- Manure handling and storage
**Area of specialization**:
- Dairy cattle
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
**Personal suitability**:
- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
