stockman

Ranch hand profession

A stockman is a person who raises or tends livestock, particularly cattle or sheep.

The term is especially common in Australia, where stockmen work on cattle stations in the outback: The stockman rounded up the herd at dawn.

In American usage, the word appears but rancher or cowhand is more typical.

ranching

homestead

Family farm and dwelling

cattle · station · paddock · bunkhouse · wrangler · saddle · lasso · chaps · spurs · rodeo

herding

drover

One who moves livestock

cattleman · flock · herd · mustering · roundup · sheepdog · corral · pen · pasture · shearing

outback

jackaroo

Trainee on Australian station

swagman · mustering · ringer · bore · windmill · outstation · bushcraft · campfire · damper · billabong

livestock

breeder

One who raises stock

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • sheepWoolly farm animal
  • swineDomestic porcine animals

poultry · husbandry · dairy · feedlot · veterinary · herd · flock · piglet · calf · ewe

occupation

shearer

One who clips wool

farmhand · drover · cattleman · pastoralist · herdsman · cowhand · vaquero · gaucho · stockkeeper

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type of agricultural work

stockmancrop farmer

One who cultivates plants

grain farmer · horticulturist · market gardener · orchardist · cotton farmer

relationship to animals

stockmanhunter

Pursuer of prey

poacher · slaughterman · butcher · trapper · big game hunter

rural vs. urban occupation

stockmanfactory worker

Manufacturing floor employee

office worker · urbanite · city dweller · industrial worker · clerk

Family

stockmen

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