WINTER RANGE LIVESTOCK WORKER

H2ajobs; Carey (ID); On-site; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Three meals daily

Transportation to site

Job summary

H2ajobs in Idaho is seeking a winter-range livestock herder with at least 3 months of experience and proven ability to manage 200 head on the range. This role requires 24/7 availability, staying primarily on the range, and performing duties from herd movement to assisting births, water provisioning, and basic fencing.

Housing and meals are provided; transportation to and from recruitment and worksite will be arranged by the employer.

Qualifications

• Must have 3 months experience with at least 200 head of livestock.
• Available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and on the range most workdays.
• Experience handling extreme winter conditions to protect livestock.

Responsibilities

• Attend to livestock on the range during winter and move animals as required.
• Identify approaching storms and take precautions to protect the herd from hazards.
• Monitor nutrition and provide emergency supplemental feed when needed.
• Provide fresh water and assist with births, branding, tagging and vaccination as required.

Skills

Livestock handling

Horse riding

4-wheeler operation

Job description

Must have 3 months experience with at least 200 head of livestock on the range. One reference required. Required to be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and spend the majority of workdays on the range. All job duties are closely and directly related to the production of livestock. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the range during the winter season: The herder must be experienced in handling extreme winter conditions on the range to prevent the death of livestock, horses, and dogs. The worker must be able to identify approaching storms and periods of inclement weather and take precautions to prevent the herd, band or bunch from drifting against a fence line where the livestock would be at risk of piling up, getting drifted over with snow, and freezing to death. Because animals exert more energy during the winter months, especially in extreme winter weather conditions, the worker must be able to monitor the nutritional needs of livestock and working animals throughout the early winter season. The worker must be experienced in identifying animals that are not getting sufficient nutrition and distribute emergency supplemental feed as required. The worker must make a supply of fresh water available to livestock in freezing temperatures. In general, the worker must know how to maintain animals in extreme weather conditions. The following seasonal duties will need to be performed. Herder will move pregnant livestock from winter grazing grounds to calving/lambing grounds; identify signs of livestock going into labor and identify potential problems during the labor process; know how and when to assist during difficult births; properly constrain livestock during difficult births; graft orphan livestock to mothers; identify herd health issues including but not limited to malnutrition, prolapse and mastitis; provide water to animals, including minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines; haul water in a truck, as required, to supplement animal water needs; provide supplemental feed for livestock if the range provides insufficient forage; disperse livestock on the range to reduce overcrowding and increase the success of mother and calf/lamb bonding; protect vulnerable livestock from predators and competently deploy nonlethal depredation mitigation equipment; move livestock to branding grounds and assist in docking/banding, shearing, herding, branding, castrating/banding, vaccinating, tagging and worming; sort and load livestock onto trucks for transport to new range or to market; safely rope and/or catch livestock with a hook. Move livestock to summer range. The worker must be able to saddle and ride a horse or mule in a safe and effective manner such as to avoid injury to self, coworkers, bystanders, or the animal itself. The worker may be required to shoe horses for his own use. The worker must also be able to use a 4-wheeler in a safe and effective manner. The worker will closely monitor and treat both mother and young offspring which are, as a rule, more vulnerable to colder temperatures and sickness; report to employer dehydration and other indicators of deterioration in animal body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); herd livestock to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; prevent hypothermia/abortion/death; move animals at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; assist with branding and tagging and with the vaccination of animals by herding into corrals and/or stalls or manually restraining animals. The worker may assist with repairing or building fence to contain or protect livestock, may assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment, and livestock handling facilities necessary for livestock production.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Housing contains free and convenient cooking facilities and employer will provide three prepared meals a day or adequate food, free of charge, based on the requisition by worker, for workers to prepare their own meals while in camp or on the range. Employer may at times provide prepared meals for workers consumption. Employer will provide worker a minimum of 4.5 gallons of potable water per day per worker for drinking and cooking purposes. Additional clean water will be provided to meet the workers laundry and bathing needs.

Transport: Transportation from point of recruitment to worksite and from the worksite back to the point of recruitment will be arranged and provided by Employer. Employer will reimburse worker for subsistence costs during travel to worksite no later than the end of the first pay period upon presentation of receipts and from the worksite at the end of the job based on rates established in the applicable regulations.

Experience wanted: 3 months

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