All occupations › Farming, fishing & forestryCan AI Replace Animal Breeders in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 21% of today's animal breeders tasks by 2036, and there is a 10% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
8% 2030 · 10% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 7% 2027: 8% 2028: 9% 2029: 10% 2030: 12% 2031: 14% 2032: 16% 2033: 18% 2034: 19% 2035: 20% 2036: 21% 12% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 100 2028: 100 2029: 99 2030: 99 2031: 99 2032: 98 2033: 98 2034: 98 2035: 98 2036: 97 99 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches. 2 Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary. 3 Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries. 4 Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics. 5 Arrange for sale of animals and eggs to hospitals, research centers, pet shops, and food processing plants. 6 Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury. 7 Maintain logs of semen specimens used and animals bred. 8 Record animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Maintain logs of semen specimens used and animals bred". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics". Get visibly better at your human core: "Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Based on 24 O*NET tasks for "Animal Breeders" (SOC 45-2021.00). LLM alone: 9% of tasks; with AI tools: 24%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
