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HORSE STABLE WORKERS, JOB DOES NOT START UNTIL, April 06, 2025. APPLICANT 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 04/06/2025 to 12/31/2025.Crops/Commodities: thoroughbreds horses. Safe handling concerns require that, to be qualified for this position, workers must have no less than three months of prior verifiable experience as stable assistant and farm worker in a horse operation. In lieu of work experience, employer will also accept documentation evidencing completion of an equine course issued by an accredited school, college, or university. Employer will hire any worker with the requisite experience who demonstrates he/she can safely and competently perform the job of handling brood mares and young horses. Persons seeking employment should be available for the entire period requested by employer. Instructions and general supervision will be provided by a designated lead worker or company supervisor. Exceptionally complex or non-routine activities will be closely supervised. Workers will be expected to perform basic horse management and handling duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Workers perform a variety of semi-skilled tasks associated with horse care/farm activities. Tasks include but are not limited to the following activities required in the handling and preparation of thoroughbreds: Identify and catch horses in stalls and fields, affix halters and lead ropes, lead into barn and tie securely and turn back out. 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. 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. Workers will observe and identify sick or injured horses. Assist farrier in trimming feet and shoeing horses. Hold horses for farriers and veterinarians and 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, and for foals. Use shiftneys and shanks in leading yearlings. Work with foals/yearlings, including brushing, leading, picking up feet, petting and touching foals to acclimate them to humans; change foals' halters. Assist in handling young horses in preparation for sales, including preparing yearlings to show at farm, preparing stall and sale grounds; setting up feed and hay storage, and supply room, setting up bathing and grooming stations; walking yearlings for exercise; cleaning and preparing yearlings for shows, including walking practice, standing and presenting yearlings; standing, walking and presenting yearlings to prospective buyers; leading yearlings to the sales pavilion for auction. Workers will operate tractors and manure spreaders, spread manure in specified locations hook up tractor and spreader, hook up truck and horse trailer, drive and back up truck and trailer, load/unload horses for transport, paint and repair fences and farm buildings and similar tasks of a general nature common to a horse operation.