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Winter Livestock Worker

William Edgar Abernathy
Byhalia, MISSISSIPPI

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Source last checked: 11/11/2026

Job summary

Livestock and animal-care worker

Pay: $13.15 / hour
Contract start / Contract end: 12/14/2026 to 3/15/2027
Education: No minimum education required

Experience required: No · 0 months of experience

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Job conditions

Pay: $13.15 / hour
Positions offered: 3 positions
Schedule: Full time
Contract start: 12/14/2026
Contract end: 3/15/2027
Visa type: H-2A
Address: 1181 Jason Way
ZIP code: 38611
Hours per week: 40

Additional pay information

The H2A wage rate offer will be $11.59 per hour.

Duties and description

Original English description

Skill Level 1.
Feed, water and care for the livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Keep all pastures clean from debris caused by wintertime weather. Maintain fences, pens, stalls and all areas that contain livestock safe and in the best possible conditions for the animals. Examine animals daily to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Mark livestock to identify ownership, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, breed and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, shoots, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks and trailers. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food. Maintain heated watering system and remove ice formed in water daily. Confine livestock in stalls as needed. Monitor cows daily for delivery of calves. Asist in delivery of calves, care for baby calves as needed; administering medicine and bottle feeding as needed. the daily feeding of the herd during pasture dormancy, calving assistance and newborn-calf care, the administration of medication to cows and calves showing signs of illness, and the upkeep of winter feeding and calving areas. Order food for animals and arrange for its delivery. Perform duties related to livestock reproduction. Patrol grazing lands on foot or using all-terrain vehicles. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records. Apply insecticides to animals. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps. Operate feed mix wagons, tractors to feed livestock, and load manure and apply to fields.
General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours. Workers will report to work at designated time and place as directed by assigned employer each day. workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees. Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.

Requirements and occupation

Education: No minimum education required
Occupation: Livestock and animal-care worker
Experience required: No
Minimum experience: 0 months of experience

Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.

Additional requirements are listed in the job description.

Listing information

Case number: H-300-26273-271406
Case status: Acceptance issued

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