Subsistence livestock farmers

Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.

Role Responsibilities

• Cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock
• Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition
• Grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool
• Herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies
• Raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them
• Breeding animals and helping with animal births
• Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale
• Carrying out some processing of animal products
• Building and maintaining houses and other shelters
• Making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household
• Fetching water and gathering firewood
• Buying, bartering and selling animals and some products