Winter Range Livestock Herder
Employer
127 PVT Rd 6220
Grapeland, TX 75844
United States
Job description
Required to be available up to 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 livestock.
Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the range during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant animals using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist with hauling water when winter and drought conditions eliminate natural sources of water for livestock; assist with sorting and cutting of culls; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); attend to pregnant livestock and newborn offspring (including night checks); break ice over frozen water sources; build and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; care for newly born offspring; detect direction from which the wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep livestock gathered and safe; feed supplemental rations; guard against predators prevalent during the winter months using appropriate tracking, trapping, and hunting methods ; herd livestock to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; herd to appropriate grazing area; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; move pregnant livestock at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; properly use/store food supplies for herder/horses/dogs; report to rancher dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; report to rancher on water/forage/weather conditions; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death.
Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the ranch during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant animals using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and handling facilities necessary to production; assist with hauling water when winter and drought conditions eliminate natural sources of water for livestock; assist with sorting and cutting of culls; break ice over frozen water sources; build and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death.
Special Requirements
Required to: 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, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, comply with employers maintenance, operating, cleaning and sanitation protocols, work with, build and maintain both set field fence and temporary electric fence, Spray pastures and/or fence lines for poisonous plants and/or noxious weeds with herbicides to prevent livestock from consuming them, perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, maintain and manage remote housing locations in a safe and responsible manner, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors, UTVs and ATVs for supplemental feeding purposes and movement of livestock, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional