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Avian Farmer
OFO Code: 612901
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 612901
- Occupation
- Avian Farmer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6129 · Other Animal Producers not Elsewhere Classified
Official description
This unit group covers market-oriented animal producers not classified elsewhere in minor group 612. For instance, this 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.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Avian Farm Foreman, Avian Production Supervisor
- Renting or investing in and maintaining and cleaning buildings, machinery, equipment , and structures
- Promoting and marketing products, arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies and maintaining and evaluating records of activities and transactions
- Monitoring and examining animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
- Killing and skinning animals, and preparing animals or animal products for market
- Training and supervising workers in animal care procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions
- Monitoring market activity and conditions, determining kinds and amounts of products to produce, planning and coordinating production accordingly
- Performing duties related to animal reproduction, such as breeding, artificial insemination, and helping with animal births
- Raising, feeding and tending animals
- Slaughtering and skinning animals and preparing them for market
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.