Range Livestock Herder
Employer: RATZBURG LIVESTOCK & GRAIN
Location: GALATA, MT
Workers needed: 4
Pay: $2300.00/month
Season: Dec 1, 2026 – Feb 2, 2027
Experience: 6 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. 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. Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment, poultry, 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. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food. Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs. Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery. Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births. Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records. Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair. Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals. Spend majority of days on the range.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer will be providing without charge or deposit charge free and convenient cooking facilities and adequate provision of food to enable the worker to prepare his own meals to H-2A workers in corresponding employment who are not resonably able to return to their residence within the same day. All cooking & kitchen facilities will be maintained in working order and are sufficent for workers to provide free transportation to stores at least every two weeks to allow workers to shop for groceries & other needed items.
In the event the housing indicated in this clearence order becomes unavailable and the employer secures alternate housing which does not contain free & convienent kitchen facilities (in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(d)(6), the employer will provide each workerwith three meals per day at no charge for such meals as indicated below in Section E Item 2.
Transport: At the time of filing, the modes of inbound & outbound transportation are not known, as the workers are permitted to select the means of transportation and will be reimbursed/paid no less than the most economical & reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved for inbound travel & outbound travel (when required).
Experience wanted: 6 months
Employer will make all deductions as required by law, as well as deductions for loans (if any); long distance telephone charges (if any); reimbursement for damage caused to the housing by the individual worker(s) found to have been responsible for damage which is not the result of normal wear and tear related to habitation (if any); charges for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return all items furnished by the employer or due to the worker's willful damage or destruction of such property; deductions directed by the worker by a voluntary assignment solely for the benefit of the worker to a creditor, donee, or other 3rd party (e.g. worker's store/vendor accounts with merchants) wholly independent of the employer and from which neither the employer nor any person acting on his behalf or interest, directly or indirectly, derives any profit or benefit. No deductions except those required by law will be made which bring the worker's below Federal Wage
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