A professional who breeds and raises fur-bearing animals, such as mink, fox, or chinchilla. Respnsibilities include:

• Buys or captures breeding stock.
• Breeds and raises animals in surroundings simulating their habitat.
• Feeds and waters animals and cleans their pens and yards.
• Kills animals in their prime and removes their pelts.
• Arranges with buyers for sale of pelts and breeding stock.
• Packs pelts in crates and ships to processing plants.
• Places live animals in crates and ships to buyers.
• May treat and preserve pelts at farm.
• May be designated according to type of animal raised as Chinchilla Farmer; Fox Farmer; Mink Farmer.