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Livestock Worker

  • R & K Farms
  • Holyoke, COLORADO
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Source last checked: 10/27/2026

Job summary

Livestock and animal-care worker

Pay
$20.02 / hour
Contract start / Contract end
9/1/2026 to 5/1/2027
Education
No minimum education required

Experience required: Yes · 3 months of experience

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Job conditions

Pay
$20.02 / hour
Positions offered
1 position
Schedule
Full time
Contract start
9/1/2026
Contract end
5/1/2027
Visa type
H-2A
Address
12145 County Road 59
ZIP code
80734
Hours per week
48

Additional pay information

The wage offer for H-2A workers is only $17.84 per hour.

Duties and description

Original English description
  • Job duties include the following, but are not limited to:
  • Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching and loading animals.
  • Examining animals to detect diseases, injuries and ensure that they are in optimal health.
  • Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides.
  • Assist in herding animals to pastures for grazing or to scales, farm trucks or other enclosures
  • Hauling feed from trailers to animals
  • Use various farming equipment like tractors, feed wagon, payloader and skid loader
  • Maintain winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed
  • Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, inspecting, maintaining and repairing equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards as well as maintenance of fences.
  • Segregating animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition
  • Marking livestock to identify ownership and grade using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos
  • Mixing feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions
  • Moving equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another manually or using farm trucks or carts

Requirements and occupation

Education
No minimum education required
Occupation
Livestock and animal-care worker
Experience required
Yes
Minimum experience
3 months of experience

See Addendum C

Additional requirements are listed in the job description.

Listing information

Case number
H-300-26169-027936
Case status
Certification issued

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