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Animal Breeders
ID
work_farming_fishing/animal_breeders
Type
TASK
Children
21
Child Nodes (21)
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Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches.
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Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary.
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Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.
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Purchase and stock supplies of feed and medicines.
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Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
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Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury.
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Build hutches, pens, and fenced yards.
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Record animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets.
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Brand, tattoo, or tag animals to allow animal identification.
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Arrange for sale of animals and eggs to hospitals, research centers, pet shops, and food processing plants.
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Place vaccines in drinking water, inject vaccines, or dust air with vaccine powder to protect animals from diseases.
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Bathe and groom animals.
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Exercise animals to keep them in healthy condition.
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Adjust controls to maintain specific building temperatures required for animals' health and safety.
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Maintain logs of semen specimens used and animals bred.
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Inject prepared animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes, by inserting nozzle of syringe into vagina and depressing syringe plunger.
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Clip or shear hair on animals.
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Package and label semen to be used for artificial insemination, recording information such as the date, source, quality, and concentration.
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Exhibit animals at shows.
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Measure specified amounts of semen into calibrated syringes, and insert syringes into inseminating guns.
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