Groom
Code 9212.3
Grooms provide practical daily horse care to ensure the horses health, welfare and safety. They take part in exercising horses, cleaning and maintaining the stables, buildings and territory.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- animal nutrition
- biology
- breed-specific behaviour of horses
- equine dental diseases
- young horses training
- training equipment for riding
- livestock species
- animal welfare legislation
- livestock reproduction
- transportation vehicles for horses
Skills and competences
- assist animal birth
- control animal movement
- control livestock disease
- breed stock
- teach young horses
- train horses
- supervise hygiene procedures in agricultural settings
- perform farm equipment hygiene
- clean stalls
- keep task records
- operate agricultural machinery
- maintain farm equipment
- maintain the farm
- maintain pastures
- provide nutrition to animals
- transport horses
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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