Start Date: 11/15/2026 End Date: 3/31/2027 Attend to live farm, ranch, or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep, and collect eggs in hatcheries. Required to be available up to 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and spend the majority of workdays on the range. All job duties are closely and directly related to the production of livestock. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the range during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant animals using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist with hauling water when winter and drought conditions eliminate natural sources of water for livestock; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); break ice over frozen water sources; detect direction from which the wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep livestock gathered and safe; detect through winter tracking methods where other rancher(s)' livestock has been to avoid overgrazing of forage; feed, water and tend to the dogs (both guard and working dogs) and horses; guard against predators prevalent during the winter months using appropriate tracking, trapping, and hunting methods ; herd livestock to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; maintain and set up supply wagon in appropriate direction to provide wind break/shelter/protection for horses & dogs; make sufficient water from snow for horses/dogs at camp; move pregnant livestock at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; operate camp stove appropriately to provide/conserve heat in extreme cold/high winds; properly hobble camp horses; properly use/store food supplies for herder/horses/dogs; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; report to rancher dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; report to rancher on water/forage/weather conditions; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the ranch during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant animals using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and handling facilities necessary to production; assist with hauling water when winter and drought conditions eliminate natural sources of water for livestock; break ice over frozen water sources; feed, water and tend to the dogs (both guard and working dogs) and horses; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death. Various range locations in Carbon, County, WY, Moffat and Routt Counties, CO. The employer will provide, without charge or deposit, three sufficient meals a day, or free and convenient cooking facilities with dequate provision of food to prepare meals. At least 4.5 gallons of potable water, per day, per worker, for drinking and cooking, delivered on a regular basis, and additional water (maybe non potable) sufficient to meet the worker's laundry and bathing needs. Employer provided housing will be located at or near the worksite. Employer will provide transportation between worker's on-site housing and work sites. Only applicants that meet all minimum qualifications for employment and who are able, willing and qualified to perform the work, who are eligible for employment in the United States, and who will be available at the time and place needed, should apply. Applicants, located in the U.S., and the State Workforce Agency may call, 307-472- 2105, between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Mon. - Fri. (MST) (closed noon hour). Applicants may apply directly via phone or visit the local SWA to submit their application and be advised of the terms, conditions and qualifications for the job, pursuant to 20 CFR 655.155. MPAS staff will screen applicants for minimum qualifications and verify references on behalf of the employer. Applicants must provide the name, and working telephone number of the previous employer who is able to verify the worker's experience in the occupation for which the worker is applying. When an applicant has not worked, in the applied for occupation, during the past twelve (12) months, up to two (2) references will be required. Note: MPAS does not have hiring authority merely acts on behalf of employer in capacity of agent. The employer is the only party with hiring authority. If hired, the applicant must be able to provide U.S. employment eligibility and/or identification documents in verification of the applicant's right to work in the United States. The worker will be afforded the time allotted by law to produce the proper documentation as outlined on the I-9 Form. The employer will complete the EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION FORM (I-9) on each worker. All deductions required by law will be made from the worker's paycheck. Social security, federal and state (if applicable) taxes will only be deducted from foreign H-2A workers upon request. Transportation and subsistence advanced/paid to the worker may be deducted from the employee's pay, but will be reimbursed to the worker upon 50% completion of the work contract. Employer will make the following deductions when applicable and/or upon request of the employee: loans and advances; long distance/data plans for personal telephone use. When it can be shown that damage to housing, tools and/or equipment caused by the employee (other than normal wear and tear) is willful or a result of negligence, the reasonable repair or replacement cost may be deducted from wages. Workers who quit or are terminated for cause prior to completing 50% of the contract will be required to reimburse the employer for the full amounts of advanced and/or reimbursed transportation and subsistence. Required to: perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, spend the majority of work days on the range, live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to hazards such as poisonous snakes, biting insects and extreme temperature, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, to operate equipment and machinery required to perform job duties indicated in a safe and responsible manner, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors, UTVs and ATVs for supplemental feeding purposes and movement of livestock, handle animals using low stress handling methods. The employer may provide advance inbound transportation via most economical common carrier or other transportation which conforms to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Travel and v

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