in Owyhee County, ID
Job Description
Dates of Need: 12/1/2026-3/15/2027
Job Duties:
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
- Haul water on the farm.
- Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
- Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
- Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
- Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
- Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
- Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
- Maintain fencing on the farm.
- Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
- Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
- Operate snow removal equipment in order to operate feed wagons.
- Confine livestock in stalls.
- Remove ice formed in water.
- Drive a pick-up truck to town for cattle supplies on occasion.
- Farming with Beef Cattle and Feedlot.
Basic Requirements:
- Full-Season Commitment- workers must be willing to work the full season as described in the contract.
- Driver requirements
- Must be able to pass a drug screen.
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
- Must be able to work with exposure to extreme temperatures.
- Must be able to work for prolonged periods of time while sitting or walking.
