Ranch Laborer

Duties may include: Assist with general calving operations such as examining calves to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Help with vaccinations, marking of livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos, and weaning of calves from cows to start their diet. Worker will be responsible for hauling manure to appropriate piles or fields, help with sorting cattle according to weight, age, color, and physical condition, loading/unloading cattle from trailers, prepare feed and mix in additives to ensure proper weight gain, check feed equipment, clean/maintain feed equipment, inspect water sources/equipment, clean/maintain/repair water system, inspect livestock for illness and injuries, separate sick livestock from the herd, move sick/injured livestock to treatment area, administer medications/injury care or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment, administer vaccinations for new cattle, confine livestock to stalls, groom livestock, castrate livestock, weigh livestock, spray livestock with insecticide, inspect pens/stables, clean/disinfect pens/stables and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps, remove old bedding, prepare new bedding, maintain livestock equipment, shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food, repair fencing for livestock, maintain windbreaks/fencing, prepare livestock for market, prepare documentation to sell livestock. Maintain clean housing and barn areas as well entire ranch. Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles. Help with daily ranching duties such as helping with irrigation, repairing gaskets and piping for irrigation, removing piping from fields before harvesting of hay and corn silage, spray weeds in fields, harvest, and stack hay. Winterize ranch and ranch equipment, move equipment manually or using trucks, trailers, or carts. Prepare for closing down ranch operations for the winter.

Salary : $16