ranch hand and livestock worker

Job duties include but are not limited to:

Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals

Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries

Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides

Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences.

Repair fences, dig post holes, install and remove electrical fences.

Rake and bale hay

Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment

Drive farm trucks, tractors, and other farming equipment to distribute food to cattle

Receive and place stocker cattle and cows on wheat and corn stalks for grazing Pull cattle off stalks and other grazed crops

Gather cattle and move cattle with 4-wheelers and stock trailers