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O*NET detailed work activityPerform animal breeding procedures
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs8 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Care for plants or animals, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (1 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
- Inject prepared animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes, by inserting nozzle of syringe into vagina and depressing syringe plunger.
- Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
- Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics.
- Measure specified amounts of semen into calibrated syringes, and insert syringes into inseminating guns.
- Examine semen microscopically to assess and record density and motility of gametes, and dilute semen with prescribed diluents, according to formulas.