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Dates of Need: 11/1/2024-3/31/2025. Must have 3 months experience with 800 - 1000 head flocks. One reference required.\ The employee must be able to identify approaching storm periods and make precautions to prevent the herd from drifting against a fence line where they pile up and get drifted over with snow and freeze to death. The herder must be experienced in handling extreme winter conditions on a range to prevent death in sheep, goats, horses, and dogs. Due to animals exerting more energy during the winter months especially in extreme winter weather, the herder will need to monitor the nutritional needs of an animal throughout winter. Ensure that animals have access to unfrozen water and to distribute emergency supplemental feed. Monitor snow levels to prevent sheep/goats from being paralyzed in deep snow or caught up against a fence. Herders need to have experience in identifying animals who are not getting enough nutrition, keeping a fresh supply of water in freezing temperatures, and how to maintain animals in extreme weather conditions. May assist in lambing, docking, and shearing. The following seasonal duties will need to be performed. Herder will need to move pregnant ewes to lambing grounds. Be able to identify signs of ewes going into labor and identify potential problems during the labor process. Know how and when to assist during difficult births. Be able to properly constrain ewes for difficult births and able to graft orphan lambs to mothers. Ability to identify herd health issues including but not limited to malnutrition of ewes and lambs, prolapse and mastitis. Provide water to animals, including minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines. May need to haul water in truck to supplement animal water needs. May need to provide supplement feed for the ewes and lambs if the range has insufficient forage. Disperse livestock on the range to reduce overcrowding and increase the success of mother and lamb bonding. Protect vulnerable livestock (lambs & ewes in labor) from predators. Move Ewes and lambs and assist in branding, castrating, vaccinating, tagging, and worming. Ability to safely catch lambs with a hook. Move ewes and lambs to summer range grounds. May assist in moving portable fence. May perform general repairs on fences.

Some work/tasks may occur off the range, but more than 51% of work will be performed on the range. Western Range Association and its member ranches facilitate practices of good animal husbandry. Employees that are found abusing, neglecting or abandoning livestock entrusted to their care may be terminated for cause. If the negligent/abusive actions of an employee result in the loss/death of livestock/animals or cause harm to another person, the employee may be held accountable for these actions.\ The worker will live in the employer provided range housing. Said housing will be clean and in good repair at the time it is provided to the employee. The employee is responsible to maintain the housing unit in a reasonable level of cleanliness in order to avoid flies, mice or other vermin. The employee is responsible to alert the employer of damage to the housing unit within a reasonable amount of time. The employee may be held accountable for damage to the housing unit that is the result of negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted). ***Hours worked footnote: On call for up to 24 hours 7 days a week***

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION Cell phones, along with sufficient minutes of use for communication, are provided, without charge or deposit, to workers during the entire period of employment. Employer has daily contact with the herders by cell phone and visits the herders every third day. EMPLOYER PROVIDED ITEMS Horse and tack, dogs, binoculars, rifle, shovel, axe, sleeping bag, cot, rain gear, rubber boots, gloves and 1 pair pants & shirt annually. also provided laundry soap, hand soap, dish soap, towel and other normal camp supplies, stoves, solar lanterns. In addition to the items listed, the worker is provided tools, supplies and equipment, as required by law, to work safely and effectively.

Debe tener 3 meses de experiencia con 800 - 1000 cabezas de bandadas. Se requiere una referencia.\ El empleado debe ser capaz de identificar los perodos de tormenta que se aproximan y tomar precauciones para evitar que el rebao se desplace contra una lnea de valla donde se amontonan y se dejan arrastrar por la nieve y mueren congelados. El pastor debe tener experiencia en el manejo de condiciones invernales extremas en un rango para evitar la muerte en ovejas, cabras, caballos y perros. Debido a que los animales ejercen ms energa durante los meses de invierno, especialmente en climas extremos de invierno, el pastor necesitar controlar las necesidades nutricionales de un animal durante todo el invierno. Asegrese de que los animales tengan acceso al agua que no esten congeladas y distribuya alimentos suplementarios de emergencia. Controle los niveles de nieve para evitar que las ovejas / cabras se paralicen en la nieve profunda o se vean atrapadas contra una cerca.