Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Subsistence livestock farmers - from $3,298 to $5,902 per month - 2025.
- A Subsistence livestock farmers typically earns between $3,298 and $4,633 gross per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between $3,591 and $5,028 per month for a working week of 38 hours.
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Job Responsibilities
- Cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock
- 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
