Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.

“Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.” is a core task performed by Animal Scientists. Among the occupation's 9 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#3 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

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• Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials. · importance 4.6
• Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the public. · importance 4.4
• Advise producers about improved products and techniques that could enhance their animal production efforts. · importance 4.4
• Conduct research concerning animal nutrition, breeding, or management to improve products or processes. · importance 4.3
• Study effects of management practices, processing methods, feed, or environmental conditions on quality and quantity of animal products, such as eggs and milk. · importance 4.3
• Research and control animal selection and breeding practices to increase production efficiency and improve animal quality. · importance 3.7
• Determine genetic composition of animal populations and heritability of traits, using principles of genetics. · importance 3.2
• Crossbreed animals with existing strains or cross strains to obtain new combinations of desirable characteristics. · importance 2.9

See all tasks on the Animal Scientists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-5417,
  title  = {Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of animals.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-5417}
}