Pig breeder
Code 6121.4
Pig breeders oversee the production and day-to-day care of pigs. They maintain the health and welfare of pigs.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- animal nutrition
- livestock feeding
- livestock species
- animal welfare legislation
- health and safety regulations
- livestock reproduction
- signs of animal illness
Skills and competences
- administer drugs to facilitate breeding
- administer treatment to animals
- feed livestock
- apply animal hygiene practices
- assist animal birth
- assist in transportation of animals
- handle pigs
- control animal movement
- breed pigs
- care for juvenile animals
- maintain animal accommodation hygienic
- create animal records
- dispose of dead animals
- manage livestock
- manage the health and welfare of livestock
- operate farm equipment
- provide nutrition to animals
- select livestock
- monitor livestock
- monitor the welfare of animals
Transversal competences
- manage animal biosecurity
- maintain professional records
- provide first aid to animals
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences