- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 4
- Job Duties:
- Tagging, calving, illness detection, injury, disease, or any physical abnormality. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment, mark livestock to identify ownership, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos, and maintain heated water systems or breaking water tank ice when necessary. Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, breed and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or by using trucks or carts. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed potions. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure they have sufficient access to food and water. Order feed for animals and arrange for it delivery. Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, assisting with artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births. Patrol grazing lands on foot or by using all-terrain vehicles. Maintain growth, feeding production, and cost records associated with animal production
Livestock: Cattle, Swine
General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours. Workers will report to work at designated time and place as directed by assigned employer each day. workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees. Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals