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Farm Worker - Livestock
Employer
Adh Mor RanchDate Posted
January 04, 2025Languages
English-
Location Ponoka, AB
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Earnings $15.65 hourly
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Work Hours 35 to 50 hours per week
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Position Seasonal Full Time
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Vacancies 2  Vacancies
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Closing Date Feb 14, 2025
Employer
Adh Mor Ranch
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Hay farming
- Livestock combination farming
- Other miscellaneous animal farming
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Wet/damp
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
Tasks
- Handling animals
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership
- Monitor the calving process
- Monitoring animal health
- Perform animal grooming activities
- Track and report on current feed inventory
- Weaning
- Feed and tend animals
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Train horses
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
Equipment and machinery experience
- Feeding and watering system
- Fertilizer applicator
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor
- Farm truck
- Forage equipment
- Haying equipment
- Lift truck
- Manure spreader
- Tillage equipment
Automated systems experience
- Bulk grain or feed handling - automated
- Manure handling and storage
Area of specialization
Cattle breeding
Animal specialization
Thoroughbred horses
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Overtime required
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in comparing information to examine produce for quality and prepare for market, to feed and tend livestock and poultry, and to clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens; and to set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in driving - operating and maintaining farm machinery and equipment
- innovative
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Interest in detecting disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
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