Animal Caretaker

workers will perform general dairy farm labor, including feeding and caring for calves, preparing milk and electrolytes, monitoring and treating sick animals, checking for signs of frostbite and cold stress, maintaining heat lamps, and providing adequate straw bedding. Duties also include cleaning and maintaining calf hutches, pens, and milking facilities; operating milking parlor equipment; sanitizing equipment; monitoring cow health; and recording treatments and abnormal milk.

the position will also involve seasonal farm maintenance, including removing snow and snowdrifts from hutches and roadways, protecting equipment from freezing temperatures, hauling bedding, cleaning muddy areas during spring thaw, pressure washing hutches and concrete pads, and preparing livestock housing, feed areas, machinery, and once spring and summer begin we need help checking ventilation systems for warmer summer weather.

• housing: employer-provided (including mobile or range)
• meals: free and convenient cooking facilities are included in each farm house
• transport: the employer will provide or reimburse workers for inbound transportation to the worksite from their home country and outbound transportation from the worksite to their home country.
• experience wanted: 0 months
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