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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Ranch Hands

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep and collect eggs in hatcheries.

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals · O*NET 45-2093.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

4 of 8tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

10 matched to the tools farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals use. Showing 10.

The tools this job actually uses

8 documented for this occupation. Showing 8, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
  • Farm Works Software Trac
  • Lancaster DHIA PCDART
  • Valley Agricultural Software DairyCOMP 305
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

19 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 19.

  1. Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
  2. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
  3. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
  4. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
  5. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
  6. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
  7. Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
  8. Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
  9. Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
  10. Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
  11. Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
  12. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
  13. Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
  14. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
  15. Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
  16. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
  17. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
  18. Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
  19. Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
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