Range Goatherder
Employer
2784 FM 2434
Columbus, TX 78934
United States
Job description
Required to be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and spend the majority of workdays on the range. All job duties are closely and directly related to the production of goats. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend livestock on the range: administer medication as needed; apply medications to cuts and bruises; assist with sorting and cutting of culls; assist with weed control on grazing areas (including noxious, invasive, and poisonous plant species); attend to kidding goats (including night checks); bed down goats at appropriate nigh site; brand, tag, clip, or otherwise mark young animals for identification purposes; build and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; care for newly born offspring; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; feed and water and ensure adequate cover in extreme weather. Feed, water, and attend to health of livestock dogs. Identify and administer medication to livestock for various health issues such as internal parasites, respiratory issues, injuries, etc., monitor animals for weight gain, thrift, and health problems; notify rancher of condition of livestock; take down and set up electric fence; round up livestock. Help maintain all equipment used for raising livestock.
Special Requirements
Required to perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, spend the majority of work days on the range, live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time, to operate equipment and machinery required to perform job duties indicated in a safe and responsible manner, to ride, handle, and tend horses in a manner to ensure safety and health of worker, work outdoors in all types of weather with exposure to potentially poisonous snakes, biting insects, and extreme temperatures, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, maintain and manage remote housing locations in safe and responsible manner, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors for supplemental feeding purposes and ATVs for movement of livestock.