Daily Tasks

• Carries out maintenance on farm buildings, hedges, ditches and erects and repairs fences.
• Moves and handles livestock and tends them during birth and rearing of young.
• Treats minor ailments and assists veterinary surgeon as required.
• Cleans barns, sheds, pens, yards, incubators and breeding units and sterilises milking and other equipment as necessary.
• Weighs and measures foodstuffs, feeds animals and checks them for any signs of disease.
• Cultivates growing crops by hoeing, spraying and thinning as necessary.
• Operates farm machinery to prepare soil, fertilise and treat crops.