Driver of oxen - in creation - Salary and Career
Multipurpose Animal Handlers

Driver of oxen - in creation - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They manage, feed and monitor the health and behavior of livestock animals. Condition and train animals. Under the guidance of veterinarians and technicians, they treat animal health, handling and applying medicines and vaccines, sanitize animals and enclosures, apply insemination, castration, trimming and shoeing techniques. They carry out support activities, advising on surgical interventions, clinical and radiological examinations, research, necropsies and animal sacrifices.

How much does an Driver of oxen - in creation earn

A Driver of oxen - in creation earns between $1.149 and $2.987 per month, with an average monthly salary of $1.597 and a median salary of $1.455 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 25.763 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Driver of oxen - in creation

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 1.597 19.160 399 7
1º Quartile 1.149 13.784 287 5
Median Salary 1.455 17.460 364 7
3º Quartile 2.278 27.340 570 10
Higher Salary 2.987 35.848 747 14


Professional job categories

  • Agricultural, forestry and fisheries workers
    • workers on the farm
      • livestock workers
        • multipurpose animal handlers

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Main workplaces

Multipurpose Animal Handlers they work in small and medium-sized rural properties, foundations, kennels and stables, predominantly in the private sector, as salaried workers, with a formal contract. There are also self-employed workers, such as inseminators, animal trainers, animal shellers and animal farriers. They are organized individually or in teams, under occasional supervision by more experienced workers. They work in the open, during the day, some are subject to uncomfortable positions, as well as being exposed to noise and animal attacks.


What does it take to work in the field of Multipurpose Animal Handlers

For the exercise of these occupations, at least fourth grade of elementary school is required, plus a two-hundred-hour professional training course (trainers, animal inseminators, animal trimmers and animal farriers) and occasional courses (for other occupations) , offered by associations, cooperatives, government agencies supporting agriculture and rural extension and professional training institutions. The full performance of the activities requires one to two years of experience.


Functions and activities of Driver of oxen - in creation

Multipurpose Animal Handlers must:

  • monitor animal health and behavior;
  • treating animal health;
  • handling animals;
  • sanitize animals and enclosures;
  • conditioning animals;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • hygiene animals and enclosures;
  • clean animals and enclosures;
  • handling animals;
  • castrating animals;
  • hygiene animals and enclosures;
  • inseminate animals;
  • perform support activities;
  • monitor health and animal behavior;
  • animal training;
  • teaching animals;
  • treat animal health;
  • feed animals;
  • castrate animals;
  • training animals;

  • Activities

    • freeze semen;
    • check the physical status of animals;
    • contain animals for trimming and shoeing;
    • suture scrotum;
    • sanitize animal genitals;
    • train co-workers;
    • spray ectoparasiticides on animals and enclosures;
    • monitor heat of animals;
    • examining animal feet (squats and angulations);
    • disinfect enclosures, drinkers and feeders;
    • remove old horseshoe (unhook);
    • monitor temperature of enclosures;
    • demonstrate observation skills;
    • demonstrate an affinity for animals;
    • monitor diseases, injuries and injuries in animals;
    • demonstrate organizational skills;
    • control food quality;
    • select types of horseshoes and nails;
    • raising baby animals;
    • sanitize animal hoofs;
    • sacrifice animals;
    • separating animals into enclosures;
    • advise in research;
    • put animals on a fasting regimen;
    • add food supplements;
    • choose conditioning methods;
    • inventory stock of medicines and food;
    • milking animals;
    • sanitize nostrils and animal ears;
    • cut spermatic cord;
    • tethering animals;
    • presenting environmental stimuli;
    • plan to capture animals;
    • punishing behaviors;
    • set taming goal;
    • show initiative;
    • give animal first aid;
    • acclimatizing animals;
    • advise in surgical interventions;
    • report occurrences;
    • tie the scrotum;
    • punish behaviors;
    • repeat actions;
    • collect waste, garbage and food scraps in enclosures and surroundings;
    • perform animal shoeing;
    • measure temperature of animals;
    • advise on animal necropsies;
    • monitor food consumption;
    • select animals to be screwed;
    • setting traps;
    • transporting animals;
    • exercising animals;
    • work as a team;
    • position males;
    • monitor mating of animals;
    • recommend referral to veterinarian if necessary;
    • manage semen cylinder;
    • scratch animals;
    • monitor time between trimming/shoring;
    • measure animal temperature;
    • induce heat;
    • clean the rectum of females;
    • remove testicles;
    • taming animals;
    • monitor diseases, injuries and injuries in animals;
    • package medicines, equipment, instruments and accessories;
    • sterilize surgical materials and equipment;
    • perform environmental enrichment techniques;
    • monitor mate choice;
    • make darts and containment and capture materials;
    • sanitize hoof wounds;
    • record stereotypical animal behaviors;
    • select the ruffian;
    • check squad;
    • perform bleeding treatment;
    • vaccinate animals;
    • monitor temperament of quarantine animals;
    • mark roster;
    • manifest physical endurance;
    • detect stress levels in animals;
    • distribute food in enclosures;
    • apply medication;
    • hygiene mouth and teeth of animals;
    • plan animal capture;
    • immerse paws of aminals in prepared solution (luvius foot);
    • demonstrate tactile sensitivity;
    • teaching commands;
    • shear animals;
    • inducing behaviors;
    • contain female for insemination;
    • collect semen;
    • dehorning animals;
    • tie spermatic cord;
    • establishing contact with animals;
    • create environmental stimuli;
    • reward behaviors;
    • check the occurrence of fertilization;
    • anesthetize animals;
    • perform braking treatment;
    • show patience;
    • monitor pregnancy and hatching of females;
    • cut the scrotum;
    • thaw semen;
    • demonstrate decision-making ability;
    • pick fruits and vegetables;
    • cauterize spermatic cord;
    • show physical endurance;
    • pay attention to details;
    • collect biological material for laboratory tests;
    • producing learning conditions;
    • monitor animal weight and growth;
    • process food;
    • socialize groups of animals;
    • brush animals;
    • monitor egg lay;
    • wash animals and enclosures;
    • crushing spermatic cord;
    • select animals to be hoofed;
    • walk with animals;
    • advise on clinical and radiological examinations;
    • monitor sociability of animals;
    • fill in forms;
    • acclimate animals;
    • anesthetize animals;
    • work safely;
    • observe discomfort of cattle during the trimming restraint process (bloat) ;
    • identify medicines;
    • apply dressings;
    • monitor maternal behavior;
    • assist animals in labor;
    • collect waste, garbage and food remains in enclosures and surroundings;
    • trapping animals in enclosures, cages and chutes;
    • program animal training;
    • trapping animals in pens, cages and chutes;
    • give first aid to animals;
    • discard insemination material;
    • clean hooves;
    • gag animals;
    • immobilize animal for castration;
    • record evolution of medical treatments;
    • prepare material for insemination;
    • perform hoof alignment and balancing;
    • select food;
    • store food;
    • exhibit creativity;
    • record animal food preferences;
    • laying animals;
    • monitor animal aggression;
    • inject semen;
    • participate in educational and cultural activities;
    • guiding animal owners;
    • teaching behaviors;
    • produce ejaculation;
    • securing animals in enclosures, cages and chutes;
    • control diet;
    • detect presence of foot injuries;
    • sanitize mouths and teeth of animals;
    • dehorning animals;
    • show patience;
    • manipulate medication;
    • mark females in heat;
    • monitor egg laying;
    • producing behavioral enrichment techniques;
    • reinforce behaviors;
    • control prey breeding;
    • plant pastures;
    • cut excess hooves;
    • teach commands;
    • bury animal carcasses;
    • make corrective or orthopedic horseshoes;
    • demonstrate hand skill;
    • sanitize materials, instruments and equipment;


    Sectors that hire Driver of oxen - in creation the most in the job market

    • breeding cattle for beef
    • breeding cattle for milk
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    • one-day chick production
    • terrain preparation, cultivation and harvesting service
    • swine farming
    • agricultural support activities
    • rice cultivation
    • manufacture of animal feed
    • livestock support activities




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