6 Jobs That Use Pigs The Most

Jobs that use pigs the most include animal caregiver, nursery worker, and farm equipment technician.

What jobs use Pigs the most?

1. Animal Caregiver

How Animal Caregiver uses Pigs:

  • Assist in managing shelter for animals and arranging for adoption or euthanasia of confiscate animals.
  • Educate pet owners about illnesses, medications, and general care, and answer their questions and concerns.
  • Walk all dogs, and occasionally strange animals such as pigs.

Most common skills for Animal Caregiver:

  • Pigs
  • PET
  • Animal Handling
  • Animal Shelter
  • General Care
  • Facility Laundry

2. Nursery Worker

How Nursery Worker uses Pigs:

  • Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows and shovels.
  • Service the work trucks by checking the oil and gas, same with the weed eaters and the lawn mowers.
  • Earn a CPR and varous other certifications.

Most common skills for Nursery Worker:

  • Pigs
  • Water Plants
  • CPR
  • Child Care
  • Church Services
  • Nursery Stock

3. Farm Equipment Technician

How Farm Equipment Technician uses Pigs:

  • Lead farm tours and help organize CSA member events.
  • Receive nursery pigs, sort and group pigs, treat small and sick pigs.
  • Do field visitation, piglet's castration and vaccination, artificial insemination and other relate activities.

Most common skills for Farm Equipment Technician:

  • Routine Maintenance
  • Pigs
  • Insemination
  • Harvest
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Equipment

4. Laboratory Animal Caretaker

How Laboratory Animal Caretaker uses Pigs:

  • Manage pigs, sheep, chickens, horses, etc.-fed/groom animals-Assisted with animal theme events-Assured customers' safe positive interactions with animals
  • Assist in managing shelter for animals and arranging for adoption or euthanasia of confiscate animals.
  • Care for animals involve in laboratory research such as rats, mice, pigs, rabbits, toads, and squirrels.

Most common skills for Laboratory Animal Caretaker:

  • Ventilation
  • Safety Procedures
  • Pigs
  • Animal Species
  • Insemination
  • Research Animals

5. Herdsman

How Herdsman uses Pigs:

  • Lead farm tours and help organize CSA member events.
  • Feed, water, injecting antibiotics.
  • Implement GPS and data analysis for more precision planting and spraying measures.

Most common skills for Herdsman:

  • Milking
  • Dairy Farm
  • Dairy Cattle
  • Pigs
  • Farm Equipment
  • USDA

6. Animal Care Technician

How Animal Care Technician uses Pigs:

  • Assist in managing shelter for animals and arranging for adoption or euthanasia of confiscate animals.
  • Train in safety procedures for blood borne pathogens, GLP and GMP certification, and ISO standards.
  • Familiarize with the strains of various animal species to include rats, mice, gerbils, guinea pigs.

Most common skills for Animal Care Technician:

  • Patients
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Pigs
  • Patient Care
  • Animal Handling
  • GLP

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