Subsistence livestock farmers breed, raise and tend livestock in order to provide food, shelter and, in some cases, a minimum of cash income for themselves and their households.
(a)   Tasks include -
cultivating pastures, or managing grazing lands, and monitoring feed and water supplies needed to maintain condition of livestock;
monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition;
grooming and marking animals and shearing coats to collect hair or wool;
herding or leading livestock to pastures, grazing land and water supplies;
raising, tending, feeding and milking animals or draining blood from them;
breeding animals and helping with animal births;
slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them and their products for consumption or sale;
carrying out some processing of animal products;
building and maintaining houses and other shelters;
making tools, clothes and utensils for use by the household;
fetching water and gathering firewood;
buying, bartering and selling animals and some products.