Range Livestock Herder

**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.

*** 02/1/2027 - 11/14/27**

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.