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Job Field: Government Jobs
Location: KAMAS, UT
Salary: $750.00 - $750.00 Monthly
Job Type: Full Time

JOB SUMMARY:

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Temporary Need 8/01/12 - 7/31/13. Requires a minimum of 6 months experience herding 800-1000 head flocks. Attends sheep flock grazing on range or pasture; herds flock and rounds up strays using trained dogs; beds down flock near evening campsite; guards flock from predatory animals and from eating poisonous plants; drenches sheep; may examine animals for signs of illness and administer vaccines medications and insecticides according to instructions; may assist in lambing, docking and shearing; may perform other farm or ranch chores related to the production and husbandry of sheep on an incidental basis; may attend sheep and lambs in barns during lambing season; may brand, tag, clip or otherwise mark sheep for identification purposes; may sort and cut culls; may feed animals supplementary rations. The size of range flocks range from 800-1000 sheep. Must be able to ride and handle horses in a manner to assure the safety of the worker, co-workers, and livestock; employee must be willing to perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision; absences from work and/or failure to perform required tasks will not be tolerated; must be willing and able to live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time; the job entails working with farm machinery, outdoors in all types of weather and occasional exposure to herding hazards such as poisonous snakes and predators; the employer will provide, at no cost to the worker, Workers' Compensation coverage or private insurance which is equal to Workers' Compensation laws for comparable employment.

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