A professional who severs jugular vein of previously stunned animals with knife to prepare animals for butchering. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions neck of animal suspended from overhead rail or shackled on table for sticking.
• Thrusts knife into throat of animal and twists blade to locate and sever jugular vein.
• May shackle and suspend animal before sticking.
• May sever head and remove skin with knife, after blood has drained.
• May be designated according to animal killed as calf sticker; cattle sticker; hog sticker; sheep sticker.