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Ranch Hand

  • South Texas Consultation, LLC
  • Shiner, TEXAS
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Source last checked: 10/31/2026

Job summary

Livestock and animal-care worker

Pay
$12.27 / hour
Contract start / Contract end
1/1/2027 to 10/31/2027
Education
High school or equivalent

Experience required: Yes · 2 months of experience

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Job conditions

Pay
$12.27 / hour
Positions offered
2 positions
Schedule
Full time
Contract start
1/1/2027
Contract end
10/31/2027
Visa type
H-2A
Address
10909 FM 443
ZIP code
77984
Hours per week
35

Additional pay information

na

Duties and description

Original English description
  • PRIMARY DUTIES:
  • Workers will perform duties associated with operating a commercial cattle ranch and horse operation in Shiner, Texas. The ranch maintains stocker cattle, a cow-calf herd, and trains roping horses. Employees will assist with livestock care, horse care, equipment operation, facility maintenance, and general ranch operations. Essential job duties include:
  • Cattle Ranch Operations
  • Feeding and watering: Distribute feed, mix rations, place mineral blocks, and ensure automatic water troughs or natural sources are accessible.
  • Health monitoring: Check herds daily for signs of injury, illness, or disease, and administer required medications or vaccinations.
  • Calving and breeding support: Assist with birthing, care for newborn calves, and monitor cows during calving season.
  • Processing and branding: Handle branding, tagging, ear-notching, castrating, and weaning calves at designated times.
  • Herding and moving: Move cattle between pastures using horses, ATVs, or trucks to prevent overgrazing
  • Horse Care and Barn Duties
  • Feed and water horses according to established schedules
  • Turn horses out and bring them in safely
  • Clean stalls, remove manure, strip bedding, and rebed stalls
  • Clean and refill water buckets and troughs
  • Handle large horses confidently and safely, including draft horses
  • Halter, lead, tie, groom, and prepare horses for riding or ranch activities
  • Pick hooves and observe horses for stones, cracks, heat, swelling, or tenderness
  • Maintain clean aisles, tack areas, feed rooms, wash racks, and storage spaces
  • Clean and organize saddles, bridles, grooming equipment, blankets, and other tack
  • Assist with saddling and unsaddling horses
  • Help load and unload horses when necessary
  • Monitor horses for changes in appetite, attitude, movement, manure, hydration, or general condition
  • Immediately report signs of illness, injury, lameness, colic, damaged fencing, or unsafe behavior
  • Follow feeding, turnout, medication, veterinary, and farrier instructions exactly
  • Assist with holding horses for veterinarians, farriers, and other equine professionals
  • Help maintain safe and professional horse experiences
  • Grounds and Property Maintenance
  • Mow, shred, weed-eat, edge, and maintain ranch grounds
  • Keep barns, roads, trails, entrances, fence lines, and guest areas clean and presentable
  • Remove brush, limbs, rocks, trash, manure, and other debris
  • Assist with pasture maintenance, weed control, seeding, fertilizing, and erosion prevention
  • Monitor and maintain water troughs, hoses, irrigation systems, and drainage areas
  • Inspect fences, gates, latches, signs, and livestock enclosures
  • Make routine fence, gate, barn, and property repairs
  • Maintain the covered arena, including dragging, leveling, watering, and monitoring footing
  • Assist with seasonal projects, storm cleanup, freeze preparation, and fire prevention
  • Safely operate and maintain tractors, mowers, utility vehicles, trailers, skid steers, chainsaws, and other ranch
  • equipment
  • Complete routine equipment inspections, lubrication, cleaning, and minor maintenance
  • Report larger equipment, fencing, water, or facility problems before they become expensive repairs
  • General Ranch Support
  • Engage in equipment operation and maintenance using 75 and 100 horsepower tractors and skid steers. Assist
  • with animal chores and ranch projects outside the horse operation when needed
  • Check gates, water systems, roads, fences, feeders, and ranch facilities
  • Help receive feed, hay, bedding, fencing materials, and other supplies
  • Maintain clean and organized shops, storage containers, barns, and work areas
  • Document completed work and report maintenance needs to ranch management
  • Follow ranch safety procedures and equipment operating requirements
  • Work cooperatively with management, other employees, and contractors

Requirements and occupation

Education
High school or equivalent
Occupation
Livestock and animal-care worker
Experience required
Yes
Minimum experience
2 months of experience

This position entails maintaining, monitoring, and working with expensive roping horses. Heading Horses Training explosive, flat departures out of the box. Perfecting the "run up" to take a correct position on the left side of the steer. Mastering the move to handle cattle smoothly, creating a clean, consistent corner for the heeler. Heeling Horses Developing a sharp, immediate "stop" or "slide" the moment the rope is thrown. Teaching the horse to track the steer's right hip and maintain proper spacing. Ensuring the horse stays balanced and reads the steer's hips through the turn. Breakaway / Calf Roping Conditioning horses for maximum explosive speed over short distances. Training a hard, clean "stop" on the hindquarters immediately upon rope release. Teaching horses to work the rope and keep back-tension until the calf is tied or the rope breaks. Random drug testing and/or background checks will be conducted after hire at the employers expense.

Additional requirements are listed in the job description.

Listing information

Case number
H-300-26292-308006
Case status
Acceptance issued

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