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Cane Run Farm LLC Farm Worker/Cane Run Farm LLC in Georgetown, Kentucky
HORSE STABLE WORKERS, JOB DOES NOT START UNTIL,3/1/2025APPLICANT SHOULD RECEIVE A COPY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION AND JOB REFERRAL BEFORE CALLING EMPLOYER CONTACT. All workers should be physically able to meet and perform the work outlined in the contract for the entire period of time from 3/1/2025 to 12/1/2025 Crops/Commodities: hay/straw, horses, standardbred horses, thoroughbred horses. Perform semi-skilled manual tasks associated with breeding, raising, and/or training horses. Must be competent in basic grooming practices including bathing, brushing, hoof care, clipping. Assist in handling young horses in preparation for sales, including preparing yearlings to show at farm and preparing stall/sale grounds. Set up feed and hay storage and supply room. Set up bathing and grooming stations. Walk yearlings for exercise. Clean and prepare yearlings for shows. Practice walking, standing, and presenting yearlings. Lead yearlings to sales pavillion for auction. Clean stalls by removing soiled bedding and manure. Replace with fresh bedding. Strip stalls and disinfect floors, walls and surrounding areas for broodmares. Sweep barn aisles, stall areas, ceilings to remove dirt, hay, cobwebs and other detritus. Mow, cut, weed, and otherwise maintain horse pastures. Maintain/clean and fill water troughs and buckets. Handle basic feeding activities including apportioning grain, hay and feed supplements according to instruction. Must demonstrate common sense and awareness of safe equine handling procedures, i.e., no running in barns, shouting, abusing horses, leaving gates/stall doors/feed rooms open or smoking in and around barns, sheds and hay storage.Provide basic medical treatment, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Hold horses for farriers and veterinarians and help administer routine intra-muscular injections. Assist veterinarians with treatment of sick/injured horses and pregnancy checks of mares. Administer first aid and medications to sick/injured horses. Take temperatures of horses. Wrap legs of injured horses or for transporting horses. Administer worming and vaccination schedule for yearlings. Administer worming and vaccination schedule, pre- and post-natal, for mares for foals. Assist in breeding and foaling of mares. Assist with post-pregnancy treatment of mares and neonatal care of foals. Use shiftneys and shanks to lead yearlings. Work with foals/yearlings, including brushing, leading, picking up feet, petting and touching foals to acclimate them to humans. Change foals' halters.Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Repair fences.Must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.Workers will load trucks with bales of hay and sacks of grain and feed weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Outdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job.The employer must provide free housing and three meals a day or furnish free convenient cooking facilities to all workers who are not reasonably able to return to their residence the same day. If the employer elects to provide meals, a maximum of $15.88 per day may be charged to the employee. The employer will provide the necessary tools, supplies and equipment at no cost to the worker. Experience:3 months experience required working with foals, yearling preparation, and vaccinations.Employees are subject to random drug testing.