Where a catcher can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a catcher already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Catchers are specialists working at poultry farms to catch the poultry.
Also known as poultry gatherer, chicken herder, chicken catcher, poultry catcher, chicken gatherer, poultry herder.
Elementary occupations 11 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: poultry sexer, 30%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A catcher needs 7 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- handle poultry handling and moving
- livestock farming systems agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- load animals for transportation handling and moving
- control animal movement handling and moving
- animal welfare agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary
- apply animal hygiene practices handling and moving
- animal welfare legislation business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a catcher does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- poultry sexer 60% covered · difficulty 32.1
- cattle breeder 52% covered · difficulty 40.3
- fur animals breeder 52% covered · difficulty 40.3
- horse breeder 52% covered · difficulty 40.3
- pig breeder 52% covered · difficulty 40.3
- sheep breeder 52% covered · difficulty 40.3
- farm milk controller 28% covered · difficulty 59
- cattle pedicure 24% covered · difficulty 61
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Catcher is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a catcher’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.