Animal Breeder Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of an Animal Breeder includes the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Adjusting controls to maintain building temperatures required for animals' health and safety.
  • Injecting animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes.
  • Examining animals to find illnesses or injuries.
  • Maintaining logs of semen.
  • Feeding animals.
  • Attaching rubber collecting sheaths to genitals of tethered bulls and stimulating animal's organ to induce ejaculation.
  • Incubating eggs until hatching.
  • Performing procedures on animals.

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Animal Breeder duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Animal Breeder roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.


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