
Livestock Worker
Entry Level Qualification
8
Career Fields
Agriculture & Food Science
For Specially Abled
Career Entrance Exam
About Career
PARTICULARS | DESCRIPTION |
Name | Livestock Worker |
Purpose | Feed The Livestock Properly |
Career Field | Agriculture & Food Science |
Required Entrance Exam | No Entrance Exam |
Average Salary | 80000 - 100000 Rs. Per Year |
Companies For You | Breeding, Raising, Sales & Many More |
Who is Eligible | Any One |
1. As a Livestock Worker, you will work in animal farms that breed and raise animals for the production of various food products such as milk, meat, and leather. Animals that are bred and raised in animal farms include cattle, goats, pigs, rabbits, sheep, etc.
2. Your work will mainly involve rearing and feeding the animals, ensuring that their rearing areas are clean and sanitized, and making sure that all the animals are in proper health conditions. You have to take utmost care during the breeding period of the animals.
3. As a livestock worker, you will have to look after the needs of every animal at your farm, clean the facility/equipment, and monitor the animals’ behavior and health issues.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
As a Livestock Worker, you will be engaged with one or more of the following roles and responsibilities: -
1. Ensure proper breeding of the animals and take care during the reproduction period.
2. Feed the livestock properly and ensure they have an adequate supply of food and water.
3. Check, monitor, and report physical characteristics such as growth and weight gain.
4. Clean the rearing or living quarters of the animals such as stalls, pens, or yards to ensure proper sanitation and prevent the spread of diseases.
5. Examine the livestock daily or at intervals to detect illness, injury, or diseases and take timely action to maintain their health and well-being.
6. Ensure proper medical treatment which includes giving medicines and vaccinations and making access for help from veterinarians.
7. Ensure proper maintenance and repair of all farm equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, stalls, yards, etc.
8. Prepare livestock for transfer to other facilities by grading, marking, tagging, etc.
9. Herd animals to pasture for grazing (in some large-scale animal farms).
Career Entry Pathway
Work as livestock farm hand/field assistant – obtain training in Animal Husbandry or related trades in an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) or other training institution.
You can work as a livestock farm hand/field assistant for some time and obtain training in the field of animal husbandry in an ITI or other training institutions, after which you can apply for jobs in the animal husbandry/livestock sector.
After completing Class 8 in school, you can work as a livestock farm hand/field assistant for some time till you are 16 years of age and then you can obtain a National Skill Qualifications Framework (NSQF) Level 3 Certificate awarded by ASCI. For this Certificate, you will need approximately 150 hours of training. Then you can apply for a job as a Livestock Worker/Animal Health Worker/Veterinary Field Assistant in livestock businesses (individual/commercial).
Required Qualification & Competencies
You may not need any formal education or training to work as a farmhand in a livestock business. However, it is better to complete Class 8 in school before trying to get a job. Ideally, you should do a training course for Animal Husbandry/Livestock Workers or obtain an NSQF Level 3 certificate as described above.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED | MAXIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED |
Under Secondary Certificate Programs for which the minimum eligibility is a pass in any class below class X. | Under Secondary Certificate Programs for which the minimum eligibility is a pass in any class below class X. |
Competencies Required
Interests
1. Investigative: You should have an interest in Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve the use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision-making, and problem-solving.
2. Realistic: You should have an interest in Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment.
Knowledge
1. Animal Care: Knowledge about how to take care of animals and cater to different needs for both domestic and farm animals. This includes knowledge about animal breeding, raring, raising, basic healthcare and grooming,
2. Animal Healthcare: Knowledge about how to diagnose, treat, and prevent animal diseases, ailments, and disorders. This includes knowledge about the various methods and procedures for assisting Veterinary Doctors as well as the knowledge about how to provide primary healthcare to domestic and farm animals.
Skills
1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation, and otherwise for application in getting work done.
2. Critical Thinking: Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.
3. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; and making appropriate and suitable decisions.
4. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems, and using the best option to solve the problems.
5. Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
6. Scientific: Skills in using various scientific rules and methods to get things done or solve problems.
Abilities
1. Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas that are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts that are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.
2. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.
3. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.
4. Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
5. Mental Stamina: The ability to sustain prolonged mental effort.
6. Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
7. Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period without being distracted.
Personality
1. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.
2. You are always or mostly helpful to others.
3. You are always or mostly caring, supportive, sympathetic, and kind to others.
4. You are somewhat organized in your day-to-day life and activities.
5. You prefer to experience new things and have new experiences sometimes.
6. You act independently sometimes but do not do so at some other times.
Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles
You will find work at different individually owned livestock farms or farms contracted by various corporate organizations, which are involved in the breeding, raising, sales, and export of livestock produce.
Career Growth
You can grow within the livestock business through roles such as Senior Worker, Supervisor, Manager, etc.
Salary Offered
A livestock worker earns around Rs. 280-500 per day. The pay increases with an increase in the production of livestock products.
Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee
Entry Level | Junior Level | Mid Level | Senior Level | ||||
Min Earning | Max Earning | Min Earning | Max Earning | Min Earning | Max Earning | Min Earning | Max Earning |
6000 | 8000 | 8000 | 12000 | 10000 | 14000 | 15000 | 35000 |
1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience
2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience
3. Mid Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience
4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also shortly, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)
Work Activities
1. Assisting and caring for animals: Taking care of animals in different situations and settings.
2. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc., or with people at large.
3. Decision-making and problem-solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.
4. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.
5. Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events, and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behavior and actions.
6. Organising, planning, and prioritizing tasks: Planning and organizing tasks to achieve work goals; prioritizing tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.
7. Providing advice and consultation to others: Giving advice or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-how, scientific matters, products, or services.
8. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and using the relevant knowledge in getting things done.
9. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and processing information; for writing.
10. Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing a team; and maintaining professional relationships among team members.
Future Prospects
You can expect a bright future in this field as the industry growth prospects are encouraging. By 2030, the milk and meat consumption in developing countries will be double that of 1990. The export will also rise as the size of the market in developed countries will double that of developing countries by 2030.
Future Prospects At A Glance
Current (0-1 year) | Long Term (2-5 years) | Very Long Term (6-10 years) |
Moderate Growth | Moderate Growth | Moderate Growth |