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ISCO 08 Code 632        Subsistence livestock farmers

Lead Statement
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.

Task statement

• Tasks performed usually include 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.

Notes
(NCvB; April 2010)