Fur animals breeder
Also called fur animal rearer, fur animal breeder, fur animals specialist
Fur animals breeders oversee the production and day-to-day care of fur animals. They maintain the health and welfare of fur animals.
What you'd do
Animal producers not elsewhere classified · ILO- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining kinds and amounts of products to produce, planning and coordinating production accordingly
- Raising, feeding and tending animals
- Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain
- Performing duties related to animal reproduction, such as breeding, artificial insemination and helping with animal births
- Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning buildings, machinery, equipment and structures
- Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing animal products for market
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies, and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
- Training and supervising workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions
- Mostly outdoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Some contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Usually under 40 hours a week
- Few deadlines
- Varied tasks, little repetition
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
More people will leave this work than new people are needed.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €700 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,500 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers in the EU, women earn 16% more per hour than men. Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in crop and livestock production is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.20 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 9 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for animal producers not elsewhere classified. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).