Farm labour vs milker

Differences between farm labour and milker duties and responsibilities

Farm labour example responsibilities.

• Manage and oversee the day-to-day running of farms raising poultry or pigs for the production of meat and breeding stock.
• Perform duties in farrowing unit, relocate sows, immunize and care for newborn pigs.
• Job are to keep the farm up, mowing, weed eating, put fertilizer down.
• Used hand tools including shovels, rakes, pruning saws, hedge and brush trimmers and axes.
• Carry out daily milking, feeding, and field operations, twice per day, for the care of dairy livestock
• Milk cows, landscaping, field work, lawn mowing, bailing hay, and anything else done on a farm.
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Milker example responsibilities.

• Milk cows, treat sick cows, clean stalls/barns, tend calves, and assist with calf births.
• Perform tasks such as feeding, medicating, washing, breeding, farrowing, and processing the pigs.
• Power wash the milk room when finish milking, shovele the barns, and fed the calves and cows.
• Assist farrowing sows through birth, sort pigs by size and by the amount of pigs she can nurse.
• Implement vaccination and calf identification program.
• Execute proper milking techniques and management practices every milking session.
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