Livestock Worker/Ranch hand
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Job overview
Furnwood Farm LLC is hiring a Livestock Worker/Ranch hand. The Livestock Worker at Furnwood Farm feeds and waters animals, monitors their health and weight gain, and provides medical treatment or coordinates veterinary care. They mark livestock, operate trucks and tractors, maintain equipment and facilities, clean barns, spread manure, mix and prepare feed, shift animals between areas, keep detailed records, and assist with general farm maintenance.
Key focus areas include Feed and water livestock daily, Examine animals for illness, injury, disease and monitor weight gain, and Provide medical treatment or arrange veterinarian services.
Important skills include Animal Care, Livestock Feeding, Veterinary Assistance, Branding Tagging, Tractor Operation, and Truck Driving.
Skills & qualifications
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Expected Start Date
10/15/2026
Compensation
$14.33 - $14.33 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
2
Job Description
Livestock Job Duties: Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies, daily. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as a rate of weight gain, daily. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Segregate animals according to weight, age, and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks. Clean barns, pens, and equipment, and re-bed barns with corn stalks and hay, bi-weekly. Spread manure on fields with manure spreader and tractor. Mix feed and additives per prescribed ration by nutritionists, daily. Shift animals between feeding areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records. Prepare bulk feed, hay and corn, and additives for daily feeding.
Alternative work: General farm maintenance and other duties as required in the farming operation maintenance. Includes, but not limited to, maintenance of tool & equipment & other work as directly related to the crop activities for which the worker is hired. Also includes fixing and the clearing and painting of fence/barns. Such work will be offered when climate or crop conditions preclude working in the primary activities listed.
General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours. Workers will report to work at designated time and place as directed by assigned employer each day. workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees. Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.
Job Type
Full time - temporary
Industry
Agriculture
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
150953
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