H-2A

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Job conditions

Performs any of the following tasks to attend to livestock: Clean livestock barns, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps. Moving cattle to winter barns from summer grazing fields. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics such as weight gain. Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides and dip/bathe animals. Mark livestock to identify grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records. Maintaining water tanks, breaking up frozen tanks caused by freezing temperatures. Maintaining feeding equipment and feed distribution inside winter pastures. Order feed and arrange for its delivery. Move cattle out of winter barns at the end of season. Drive pick-up truck to town for cattle supplies on occasion. Farming with: Cattle (No CDL or Commercial Driving Required)