cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock
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Subsistence Livestock Farmers
Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and, in some cases, a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
6 Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers / 63 Subsistence Farmers, Fishers, Hunters and Gatherers / All level 3
monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition
grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies
raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them
breeding animals and helping with animal births
slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale
carrying out some processing of animal products
building and maintaining houses and other shelters
making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household
fetching water and gathering firewood
buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.
Included occupations
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit groups:
6320 Subsistence Livestock Farmers