Stable Attendant
Employer: Brookdale Farm, LLC
Location: Versailles, KY
Workers needed: 14
Pay: $15.87/hour
Season: Jan 15, 2027 – Nov 15, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Attend to, groom, and care for horses according to instruction. Perform general stable care. Provide horses with water, food, and supplements as instructed, Assist in pre-foaling, labor, post-foaling, foal turnout and care, and mare teasing and weaning. Shift horse locations between stable, grazing, and training areas as directed. Workers may perform other labor incidental to the listed job duties, such as cleaning animals' quarters, maintenance of the farm facilities, and equipment, and other similar tasks.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities are provided to all workers in employer-provided housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Versailles, Kentucky is a small rural town and the grocery store is three-quarters of a mile away from Brookdale Farm. Brookdale Farm owns a fleet of trucks available for use by the workers who possess drivers licenses. The returning H-2A workers who possess valid Kentucky driver's licenses will be able and available to drive the other H-2A workers to this nearby grocery store to procure food as needed. In addition, since the grocery store is so close, H-2A workers may walk to the grocery store as needed.
Transport: Brookdale will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose for inbound transportation, and all outbound transportation will be by commercial airlines. Brookdale will reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charge for the distances involved, specifically workers will arrange their own transportation and either fly or travel by bus/motor coach to Versailles, KY, and then by car or other passenger vehicle from the
Experience wanted: 2 months
B.2: Work Experience: 2 months' experience working with horses or on farms.
Supervision. Workers will perform all job duties according to the instruction and supervision of the farm manager, horse trainers, riders and other senior staff. Extremely specific instructions may be given regarding care for particular horses, sometimes on a daily basis. Stable Attendants will not supervise any other workers and will regularly report to their supervisors regarding work performance.
Worker Performance Standards. Workers must be physically able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time, and must be able to lift 50 pounds and must be able to endure manual labor through extreme variant weather conditions, between temperatures of 20 and 100 Fahrenheit, high humidity, wind, rain, sleet, snow, etc. Workers must appear promptly at or before the designated start time on each workday and competently perform a full day of work until the designated end time.
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