Ranch Hands
Employer: Lc Legacy Ranch LLC (2037)
Location: Brighton, CO
Workers needed: 15
Pay: $16.68/hour
Season: Jan 2, 2027 – Oct 30, 2027
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
The basic duties of a ranch hand on a working ranch are tending livestock and repairing and cleaning fences, ranch buildings, and operating equipment. Tending livestock usually includes feeding, watering, birthing, branding, shearing, roping, sorting, pasturing, herding, grooming, or trimming, cleaning stalls and basic doctoring skills for the ranch's horses, cattle, poultry, pigs, and/or sheep. Having raised healthy animals through this attentive care, ranch hands must also haul the livestock to market or to a shipping terminal for the purposes of selling or butchering. Ranchers specialize in nurturing and caring for these young animals. Cow-calf raisers must keep track of breeding and calving season, and they must have enough rudimentary veterinary skills to aid heifers in the birthing of calves and even in the treatment of animals that are wounded or hurt during the birthing process. Moving or herding cattle to and from different pastures, transporting animals to new locations or to market, protecting the herd from wild animals or even poachers and providing basic veterinary care to sick or injured animals as the need arises. As with any piece of property, a ranch requires a great degree of general maintenance and oversight. Because of the vastness of many ranches, this work includes tasks such as repairing fences to separate pastures and building and maintaining all buildings on the property, maintaining machinery, trucks, tractors, and other equipment used in ranching. Other maintenance tasks for entry level ranch jobs include groundskeeping, operating machinery such as mowing and baling hay fields, operating ranch vehicles, transporting grain, barley and wheat to silos on ranch, removing dead or fallen trees and ensuring there are no poisonous or dangerous plants or animals on the property that could harm the livestock, daily irrigation of fields using modern sprinkler systems, setting up irrigation tubes to direct water to specific areas and digging new ditches to move water to new locations.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Kitchen facilities, utilities, appliances, and utensils will be provided by the employer at no cost to the workers. Workers will provide and prepare their own meals. Upon request, the employer will provide transportation, at no cost to the worker, to stores at least once a week for shopping for food and other necessary items.
Transport: The employer is responsible for paying inbound transportation costs in the first workweek of employment to the extent that shifting such costs to the employees (either directly or indirectly) would effectively not bring the workers' wages below the FLSA minimum wage. Employer will provide or pay for charter bus services or other modes of transportation to groups of H-2A or U.S. workers or will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than
Experience wanted: 0 months
A one hour break will be given daily. Possible Saturday work.
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