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Automations for Ranch Hands

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep and collect eggs in hatcheries.

O*NET occupation: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00). The software list and tasks below come from that record, not from guesswork.

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Software ranch hands use that we connect

What we can build for ranch hands

The job’s documented tasks, most important first. Each is a request away.

  1. Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.Quote it
  2. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.Quote it
  3. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.Quote it
  4. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.Quote it
  5. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.Quote it
  6. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.Quote it

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