Livestock Worker
Employer
6535 W Rd 60 S
Hoxie, KS 67740
United States
Job description
November: calving cows and heifers, tagging calves as they are born, checking cow and calf health daily, administer medicine as necessary, pull calves out of pastures and to working facilities, tracking calf gender and growth, prepare corn stalk and wheat pasture with temporary fence, put bulls on cows for breeding; December-February: put calves and stocker calves on wheat and corn stocks for grazing, feed cattle with trucks and small tractors/forklifts to supplement diet, monitor animal health, build new pens by welding, rebuild and fix fence, scrape manure out of pens, move manure out of pens to fields, service livestock equipment and small ATVs, break ice in watering facilities; March: pull calves and cows off stocks and wheat pasture, castrate bull calves, pull adult bulls off cows, sort cattle into pens, sell stocker cattle, check grass pasture fence, move cows to pasture; driving farm pickup to move cattle.
Special Requirements
See ADD C