Livestock Worker/ranch Hand - Kansas Employer : Job Details

This job was posted by : For more information, please see: any of the following tasks to attend to sheep: Lambing 360 ewes (expecting multiple births; twins and some triplets); Processing/working newborn lambs: recording data, docking tails, ear tagging, dipping navels; Vaccinating ewes and lambs; Mixing creep rations and filling creep feeder for the lambs; Mixing feed rations for ewes, it is different from the lamb rations, this is done twice a day so that the ewe will have adequate milk supply if she has multiple lambs; Filling mineral feeders and putting out protein tubs; Cleaning out water troughs and filling up with clean fresh water; Moving hay bales and filling up round bale feeders; Setting up panels, pens for all ewes with lambs that are lactating; Cleaning out and laying down clean fresh straw in lambing barn and pens every day; Hauling out old straw and manure to the storage pile with a bucket tractor; Feeding bottle babies; Drive to town to pick up feed; Assist the ewe in the event of having a complicated birth; lamb is stuck, lamb is backwards; Bringing ewes into barn every night and let them out every morning; Maintain feed alleys and fence line feeders after any weather events (snow/rain) in order to feed sheep; Sheer ewes ;Hoof trimming.Workers will purchase food and prepare meals in a fully equipped kitchen, provided by the employer. Employer will make sure workers have access to a grocery store at least once per week.For the entire duration of the work contract, transportation from the housing location to the work site and back each day will be provided at no cost to the worker.