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Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers · code 6129

Animal producers not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers market-oriented animal producers not classified elsewhere in Minor Group 612: Animal Producers. For instance, the group includes those engaged in breeding, raising and tending non-domesticated mammals, game and other birds (except poultry), snails, snakes and other reptiles, as well as various insects and animals used for laboratory tests, for sale or delivery on a regular basis to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations, zoos and circuses, or at markets. In such cases tasks would include - (a) monitoring market activity and conditions, determining kinds and amounts of products to produce, and planning and coordinating production accordingly; (b) raising, feeding and tending animals; (c) monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain; (d) performing duties related to animal reproduction, such as breeding, artificial insemination and helping with animal births; (e) renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, buildings, machinery, equipment and structures; (f) slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing animal products for market; (g) storing and carrying out some processing of produce; (h) promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies, and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions; (i) training and supervising workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties and health and safety precautions. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Crocodile farmer - Fur farmer (non-domesticated animals) - Game bird breeder - Ostrich farmer - Snail breeder Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Pet groomer - 5164 - Zoo keeper - 5164 - Game warden - 5419 - Poultry breeder - 6122

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 144 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • fur animals breeder

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

80
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 20 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 20 = 80

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

60.9
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

37.5
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 41 · hand skill 39.3 · cramped spaces 32.2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 60.9 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 46.3, while the average is 20. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 46.3

    Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining kinds and amounts of products to produce, planning and coordinating production accordingly

    Low
  2. 40.5

    Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies, and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions

    Low
  3. 17.8

    Training and supervising workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions.

    Very Low
  4. 14.8

    Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain

    Very Low
  5. 13.6

    Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning buildings, machinery, equipment and structures

    Very Low
  6. 13.1

    Raising, feeding and tending animals

    Very Low
  7. 13

    Performing duties related to animal reproduction, such as breeding, artificial insemination and helping with animal births

    Very Low
  8. 11.3

    Storing and carrying out some processing of produce

    Very Low
  9. 9.8

    Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing animal products for market

    Very Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

1 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
65
AI does it for you
34

Helping wins by 31 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1213, 3632

Compared with similar jobs

There are 18 jobs in the “Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers” group, averaging 83.8. This one is below that.