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RANGE SHEEPHERDER

• Country: United States
• Visa type: H-2A
• Job ID: H-300-26082-721542 (Open on offer list)
• Employer name: Confidential
• Employees needed: 4
• E-mail (employer): Confidential
• E-mail (agent): Confidential
• Phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Agent phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Working hours per week:
• Wage: 2132.41 USD / Month
• Start date: 06/01/2026
• End date: 02/28/2027
• Process date: 03/24/2026 11:15:07
• Submit date: Confidential
• Offer description:

  Must have a minimum of three (3) months verifiable experience handling range sheep and/or goat flocks consisting of approximately 800–1000 head. One reference required. Employee will attend sheep and/or goat flocks grazing on open range or pasture. Duties include herding animals and rounding up strays using trained herding dogs while riding horseback, operating ATVs, or traveling on foot over rough and uneven terrain. Employee will maintain control of livestock in large open areas and promote proper grazing distribution to prevent overgrazing and damage to rangeland resources. Employee will bed down flocks at designated evening campsites and establish, maintain, and repair temporary enclosures including night pens, portable fencing, electric netting, or panels as needed to contain livestock. Worker will assist with setting up, maintaining, and relocating mobile camps and ensure cleanliness and sanitation of living and working areas in remote environments. Employee will monitor livestock health daily, examine animals for signs of illness or injury, and administer vaccines, medications, drenches, insecticides, and basic treatments according to employer instructions. Duties include sorting, counting, loading, and unloading livestock for movement between grazing areas, allotments, or transport vehicles. Worker will monitor predator activity, guard livestock from predation and poisonous plants, report losses or threats, dispose of carcasses when necessary, and implement predator deterrent and control methods as directed by employer. Employee will maintain water and feeding systems including locating natural water sources, maintaining troughs, portable water systems, and pipelines, and placing salt and mineral supplements. Worker will maintain herding equipment including saddles, tack, ATV operation, minor equipment repairs, and care of herding dogs. Range herding occurs during active grazing seasons when vegetation is not dormant. Worker must possess knowledge of rangeland management to prevent overgrazing, avoid noxious weeds, and promote proper vegetation utilization which supports wildfire fuel reduction, soil fertility, and sustainable forage use. Employee will maintain daily written or electronic records including grazing locations, livestock counts, health treatments, predator observations, mortalities, and significant incidents as instructed by employer. Work is performed outdoors in remote areas under varying and sometimes extreme weather conditions including heat, cold, wind, precipitation, and high elevations. Worker must be able to live independently in isolated environments, travel long distances on horseback or foot, lift and carry necessary supplies and equipment, and work long or irregular hours as required by livestock and environmental conditions. Western Range Association and its member ranches facilitate practices of good animal husbandry. Employees that are found abusing neglecting or abandoning animals entrusted to their care may be terminated for cause. If the negligent/abusive actions of an employee result in the loss/death of animals or cause harm to another person, the employee may be held accountable for these actions. The worker will live in the employer provided range housing. Said housing will be clean and in good repair at the time it is provided to the employee. The employee is responsible to maintain the housing unit in a reasonable level of cleanliness in order to avoid flies, mice or other vermin. The employee is responsible to alert the employer of damage to the housing unit within a reasonable amount of time. The employee may be held accountable for damage to the housing unit that is the result of a dishonest or willful act or by the gross negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted). ***Hours worked footnote: On call for up to 24 hours 7 days a week***

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