Seasonal Livestock Worker
Employer: Juan Jose Hawa Sarquis Ranch, Inc.
Location: La Vernia, TX
Workers needed: 1
Pay: $16.24/hour
Season: Jan 2, 2027 – Apr 30, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Worker will be expected to feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions. Perform animal breeding procedures and duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Assist in fattening of livestock for domestic consumption. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries and/or other incidentals.
If free and convenient kitchen facilities become unavailable for any reason, the employer will provide three (3) meals a day for which it will charge individual workers, by payroll deduction, no more than the daily permitted amount as provided in 20 CFR 655.173, which was $16.78 as of April 7, 2026, and which may be increased during the period of this employment.
Transport: See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 3 months
The worker must have a minimum three (3) months of relative work experience in livestock caretaking and breeding. Must be able to lift and carry 50 lbs.
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