Range Livestock Herder

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: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant cows using roping methods to gently immobilize cow without causing undue stress; apply herbicides to noxious, invasive and poisonous plant species on grazing areas; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); attend to calving cows (including night checks); care for newly born offspring; detect direction from which the wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep livestock gathered and safe; ensure newly born offspring stand and nurse; gather and trail cow-calf pairs through sorting and shipping process; guard against predators prevalent during the winter months using appropriate tracking, trapping, and hunting methods ; help with maintenance of meadow lands and repair fences; herd to appropriate grazing area; herd/trail cows to viable water sources; identify cows that are preparing to give birth.

Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock at the ranch: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant cows using roping methods to gently immobilize cow without causing undue stress; administer medication as needed; assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and handling facilities necessary to production; assist with castration of livestock; assist with loading and unloading livestock according to shipping schedules; assist with preg testing cows and heifers; assist with the vaccination of livestock by herding into corrals and/or stalls or manually restraining animals; attend to calving cows (including night checks); brand, tag, clip or otherwise mark young animals for identification purposes; care for newly born offspring; ensure newly born offspring stand and nurse; feed, water and tend to the dogs (both guard and working dogs) and horses; identify cows that are preparing to give birth; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage.

Requirements: 6 months of experience. Required to: perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, 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, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to hazards such as poisonous snakes, biting insects and extreme temperature, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors, UTVs and ATVs for supplemental feeding purposes and movement of livestock, work with, repair and maintain both set field fence and temporary electric fence.