equine hand

Watching mares for signs of heat/being ready to be bred. Assist mares in labor, encouraging foal to get up and nurse. Dip foal navel, administer enema. Watching heifers and cows for any close to calving. Assist with pulling calf, if cow is having a hard time on her own. Cleaning manure from pens and stalls, adding new shavings to stalls, watering horses, feeding horses daily. Help administer any medications + bandage changes to horses and foals. Assist with horses being rehabbed on the underwater treadmill (i.e. picking out feet, brushing them off, putting a diaper on them, and standing at their head while they are on the tread). Putting horses on the walker. Help with fencing, moving cattle, moving horses, any arena maintenance, cleaning up manure from the parking lot. Ability to lift 60lbs.