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WE ARE LOOKING FOR A HERD HEALTH PERSON TO COMPLIMENT OUR CURRENT STAFF.
RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING HERD HEALTH ON A 4000 HEAD FEEDLOT.
DUTIES INCLUDE RECOGNIZING, AND TREATING SICK ANIMALS, PROCESSING NEW CALVES COMING IN, SORTING CALVES FOR SHIPMENT.
EQUIPMENT OPERATING WILL ALSO BE REQUIRED FOR FEEDING AND OTHER GRAIN FARMING ACTIVITIES.
preference will be given to a person who has completed a veterinary technician course at a post secondary school, but the right candidate will also be considered.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Driver's licence
Additional Skills
- Maintain financial and production records
Specific Skills
- Raise and breed livestock and poultry
- Plant, cultivate and harvest crops
- Maintain Farm Machinery, Equipment And Buildings
Type of Equipment
- Truck
- Tractor
- Manure handling or storage system
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Swather or combine
Type of Farm Operations
- Livestock
- Grain, oil seed, forage crop