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Walnridge Farm, Inc Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultur in Cream Ridge, New Jersey
1 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/01/2024 - 12/01/2024.
Crops/Commodities: horses - stable work. The employer is a large standardbred (harness) horse breeding/sales farm where employment is dependent on the annual breeding through yearling sales seasons. The seasonal employment period in standardbred racehorse breeding is April through the end of November.
Workers perform a variety of tasks associated with the breeding, handling and preparation for sale of standardbred equine stock. These include the following: identify and catch horses in fields, affix halters and lead ropes, lead into barn and tie securely. Competence in basic grooming practices including bathing, brushing, hoof care, clipping. 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. Maintain clean and fill water troughs and buckets. Handle basic feeding activities including apportioning grain, hay and feed supplements according to instruction. Hold horses for farriers and vets as needed and administer routine intra-muscular injections. Assist in handling young horses in preparation for sales.
Help maintain equipment, assist with mowing and weeding, cutting and baling hay, work in fields, clean around barns. 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. Workers must demonstrate commonsense 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.
Requirements:
- 3 month experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive Pushing or Pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov