Farmworkers, Farm Ranch and Livestock Animals

Work description

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 gran bins and general buildings. Use of various farm and cattle-specific farming equipment. Drive farm trucks, tractors, and other farming equipment to distribute food to cattle. Maintaining of records, as required by the various relevant entities, clients, and in-house management. Maintaining personnel files, tracking hours for payroll (H-2A workers and permanent workers) Monitoring feed and supply inventories Recording livestock health and treatment events and supporting data entry into livestock management systems. Assist weighing cattle, Make tags for livestock Assisting with the general upkeep of offices, scale rooms, and common areas