Ranch/livestock Hand
Employer
4405 Red Flame Ranch Rd
Loma, MT 59460
United States
Job description
The employee will be required to assist in the overall operation and handling of 210 head of Registered Simmental Cattle, with cattle numbers growing annually. The employee will be required to care for or husbandry of livestock, including feeding and watering livestock; examining livestock to detect diseases, illnesses, or other injuries; administering medical care to sick or injured livestock and applying vaccinations, be it oral or injection. Assisting with the breeding, birthing, raising, weaning, castration, branding, tagging and general care of livestock. Assist with sorting, loading and hauling of cattle to market in the fall. Employee needs to have experience and knowledge of driving/operating a Semi-tractor/trailer and loading cattle and operation and function of the different gates and openings within a Cattle Pot Trailer. Herd livestock to various pastures, drive 4-wheeler to move livestock; confine livestock in stalls, clean/disinfect livestock corrals/stalls/sheds and docks. Calving begins towards the end of March and runs through April. Employee may be asked to work extra or odd hours during the calving season. Feed, water and care for the horses on the ranch used to help gather and sort the cattle for branding, shipping and moving from pasture to pasture. Keep all stalls/corrals/barn(s) cleaned and repaired at all times. Repair and build barbed wire fence, pick rocks, perform general cleanup, along with upkeep of ranch buildings and occasional painting of the buildings if need on the ranch and general yard work. During winter months, the employee will be required to maintain the snow removal of walkways, roads, building entrances and breaking ice in the stock tank/waters so all livestock have access to open water. Employee will be required to perform routine mechanical repairs and maintenance on hay/ranch and irrigation equipment. The irrigation has to be winterized in the fall for the winter months and all other farm equipment (tractor, feed pickups/trucks, plows, atv's etc.) must be maintained and running through the winter and all hay equipment must be prepared, maintained and mechanical repairs made and ready to go for the haying season in the summer months. The job entails working with farm animals and machinery, outdoors in all types of weather (extreme cold, wind, dust, snow, ice, heat) and potential occasional exposure to herding hazards such as cattle stampedes, kicking of a cow or horse and/or a bucking horse (very unusual circumstance, but can happen). Employee must crouch, bend, lift and carry items weighing up to 100 pounds. Employee may be required to obtain a Montana Driver's License, if employee is from out of state or country. This position is offered from August 1st-April 30th annually.
Special Requirements
See Addendum C