Farm Laborer
Employer
3390 Eager Rd.
Jamesville , NY 13078
United States
Job description
Assisting with lambing which includes segregating ewes that have given birth plus caring for the young which also includes, record keeping, giving: vaccinations, castration, tail docking, ear tagging, warming if hypothermic, bottle feeding orphans giving minerals and general care and feeding of the ewe and lamb flock. Feeding and watering includes giving the ewes, grain and hay 2x/day. Additional duties include, plowing in and around barns during winter, setting barn configuration up and transferring animals based on management practices to separate barns as necessary. Cleaning barns, ability to use a skidsteer and tractor, gathering logs that have fallen in pasture or on fence lines cutting and splitting them, mowing fields after they've been grazed, moving the flocks rotationally between fields, disposal and or composting of dead livestock by using tractor to pick up deceased animal, digging a hole and burring in the hole. Delivering products produced on the farm to market, assisting with on farm kill of lambs, delivering lambs to slaughter house by use of farm vehicle. For our maple sugar production: String lines, install vacuum pumps, tapping trees, and collecting sap.