What does a Animal Breeder
actually do all day?
top skill Critical Thinkingcore tasks 6median pay $51,130AI exposure 0/100
Animal Breeders is fairly steady, on your feet, some people contact work.
What this job actually does all day
The representative tasks O*NET analysts recorded for this role — not a glossy job ad, the real work.
- Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches.
- Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary.
- Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.
- Purchase and stock supplies of feed and medicines.
- Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
- Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury.
Skills & environment
Bars are O*NET importance/intensity ratings, scaled 0–100 so you can compare at a glance.
The skills it demands most
What the environment feels like
Deadline pressure: few hard deadlinesConflict & friction: rarely deals with conflictNeed to be exact: moderateTime spent sitting: mostly on your feet / movingContact with people: moderate
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How this is built. Tasks, skills, and work-environment ratings come from the
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closest thing to "what the job is actually like" in public data. Skill scores are O*NET Importance
ratings (0–5) and environment measures are Context ratings (0–5), both rescaled to 0–100 here for
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pulled straight from the survey, not invented. Figures describe the typical role, not any one person's job.
