Winter Range Cattle Herder

Winter Range Cattle Herder
Location: 811 FM 2023 Fort Stockton TX 79735 Fort Stockton, TX 79735 United States
Pay: $2132.41 per month
Visa required: H-2A
From Dec 1, 2026 to Jan 31, 2027

Job description: 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: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant cows using roping methods to gently immobilize cow without causing undue stress; apply medications to cuts and bruises; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); brand, tag, clip or otherwise mark young animals for identification purposes; detect direction from which the wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep cows gathered and safe; detect through winter tracking methods where other rancher(s)' livestock has been to avoid overgrazing of forage; examine animals to detect diseases and injurie