Winter Livestock Worker
Little Paris Sheep Company
📍 Jiggs, NV · Elko County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26201-112352
- 📞 Phone: +1 (775) 934-8860
- ✉️ Email: littlelivestock@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Open Job Order, please contact Local State Employment office. The employment office will refer each applicant to David & Bonnie Little. David & Bonnie Little will conduct a full telephone interview with the applicant. The office hours are Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Pacific Standard time 775-934-8860. All employers must continue to be open to any qualified U.S worker regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap, or citizenship. No strike requirements - The worksite does not currently have workers on strike or being locked out in the course of a labor dispute.
Western Range Association and its rancher members maintain a strong commitment to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. An employee's involvement with alcohol and drugs could be extremely dangerous to all employees and others, and disruptive to the workplace. Use, manufacture, distribution or possession of an illegal drug, or misuse of a prescription drug is cause for termination. Any person found to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while working will be terminated.
At the employers expense, all applicants may be required to complete pre-employment alcohol and drug testing. Failure to consent to requested testing, will result in disqualification of the applicant.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Winter Livestock Worker (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26201-112352
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
3 months experience is required; one reference is required. The employee must be able to identify approaching storm periods and make precautions to prevent livestock from drifting against a fence line where they could pile up and be drifted over with snow and freeze to death. The employee must be experienced in handling extreme winter conditions to prevent death in sheep, cows, horses, and dogs. The employee will need to monitor the nutritional needs of the animals throughout winter and ensure that the animals have access to unfrozen water and, if needed, to distribute emergency supplemental feed. Employee may perform maintenance and general repairs on fences, assist in calving, assist in moving pregnant cows to different areas such as fields or barns, be able to identify signs of cows going into labor and identify potential problems during the labor process, and know how and when to assist during difficult births. Employee must be able to properly constrain cows for difficult births and be able to graft orphan calves to mothers and/or care for the orphan calves. Ability to identify herd health issues including but not limited to malnutrition of cows and calves, prolapse and mastitis is required. Providing water to animals, including minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines and/or hauling water in a truck to supplement animal water needs may be required. Employee will assist in providing feed for the livestock. Western Range Association and its member ranches facilitate practices of good animal husbandry. Employees that are found abusing, neglecting or abandoning livestock entrusted to their care may be terminated for cause. If the negligent/abusive actions of an employee result in the loss/death of livestock/animals or cause harm to another person, the employee may be held accountable for these actions. The worker will live in the employer provided 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 negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted).
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb Drug test |
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Other |
| Pay details | H2A WAGE $12.39 |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Jiggs, Nv) |
| Housing | One fixed site unit with the capacity of eight. Total housing is eight. The housing is available and sufficient to accommodate the workers being requested. Address of housing: Little Ranch Harrison Pass HC 30 Box 346 Jiggs, NV 89815 |
| Meals | With agreement from employee, ranch management will purchase and transport groceries onsite and deduct only the cost of the food from the employee. Housing and cooking facilities will be provided free of charge to the employee. Housing contains free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities that will enable the workers to prepare their own meals. The employer will transport workers to town when needed, free of charge. |
| Daily transportation | Daily transportation will be provided by the employer. David & Bonnie Little provides transportation to the worker from the housing provided to the employer's place of employment each work day at no cost to the employee. Vehicles used to transport employees are: 2011 Dodge Ram 3500 2016 Dodge Ram 3500 Each with a passenger capacity of six persons. Each licensed and registered with the State of Nevada. |
| Travel to the job | Transportation from point of recruitment to worksite and from the worksite back to the point of recruitment will be arranged and provided by Employer. Employer will reimburse worker for subsistence costs during travel to worksite no later than the end of the first pay period and from the worksite at the end of the job based on rates established in the applicable regulations. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security and Federal Income Tax withholding's may be deducted from wages. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26201-112352 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION |
| Posted | Jul 27, 2026 |