Farm Worker

Job duties include but are not limited to

• Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals
• Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries
• Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides
• Assist in herding animals to pastures for grazing or to scales, farm trucks or other enclosures
• Hauling feed from trailers to animals
• Cutting, raking, baling, hauling, stacking, and storing hay
• Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed

Segregating animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition

Marking livestock to identify ownership and grade using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos

Mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions

Moving equipment or livestock from one location to another manually or using farm trucks or carts

Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences, feedlot pens, water tanks, and feed equipment.

Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment, which includes the operation of feed trucks, payloaders, semi – truck and tractors.

Requirements: 3 months of experience. See Addendum C