Open Range Production Parturition
Employer
19100 Piper Ln
Penn Valley, CA 95946
United States
Job description
Parturition takes place on the range. Beginning on or around September 15, worker will begin preparing for lambing season. Worker will: Prepare sheds for babies and sick animals. Build pens for different lamb/sick groups. Set up watering system, hay system, supplements, and milking station. Sort animals into Lambing groups. Administer pre-lambing vaccinations. Worker will demonstrate an understanding of sheep nutritional needs in their different stages of gestation and lactation with foresight to compensate for that with where they graze, supplements, and/or hay. Knowledge of how to graze alfalfa to mitigate bloat risk and how to handle bloat if it does occur. How to assist sheep in need when lambing. For example, pulling stuck animals and resetting prolapse animals. Knowledge of appropriate medicines to give for each situation. Knowledge of how to get moms to take their babies and making sure moms take both twins.
Must demonstrate knowledge in the following areas:
Knowing when there is not enough milk and supplementing babies when this occurs.
Bottle feeding in the case of death, multiple offspring, or low milk supply. Understanding of how to tube a lamb that cannot suck. Knowledge of newborn lambs and the importance of their nutritional needs and how to get them those needs when the mother is in a stupor. Understanding the difference in milk and colostrum and when each is needed in a newborn lamb. Understanding how to and how not to warm a lamb when it is cold after birth. Ability to take a temperature on sheep and their offspring and knowing what temperature is acceptable in order to prevent sickness in the animals. Ability to spot and administer medicine for pneumonia. Ability to spot and administer medicine for worms (deworming). Tagging and recording lambs/. Docking tails on ewe lambs. Castrating and or banding male lambs. Watering livestock, moving fence, knowledge of electrical fence.
Worker must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds. Most duties are performed out-of-doors and entail exposure to extreme temperatures; dust, rain, snow, wind; and herding hazards; poisonous snakes and predators common in range lands. General supervision will be provided by the ranch owner. Workers will live in mobile camps during the entire production period. The open range livestock worker will be required to be On-Call 24/7 and live and work on the range more than 50% of the time.
Special Requirements
None