We're needing a great new person who'd love to live on our beautiful Wyoming ranch, and help with the horses. Check out the specifics below, and then please contact us.

You can send a resume to:
149 Robinson Canyon Road, Buffalo, WY, 82834, or e-mail it to us.
We'll look forward to hearing from you!

Basic Job Description:
A part time job, requiring 2-3 hours/day feeding and caring for horses. The job includes a log home on a beautiful ranch at the base of the Big Horn Mountains south of Buffalo, Wyoming. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone who would like to live in a quiet, secluded place, with pristine wilderness all around, especially good for retirees, or home based entrepreneurs. There would be opportunities for additional hours, billed separately, doing maintenance and projects around the ranch.

Knowledge and Experience Requirements:
Experience working with and around horses
Ability to recognize health problems and dangerous horse behavior
Ability to safely saddle, bridle, and load horse in trailers
Experience administering maintenance drugs and treating minor injuries
Knowledge of livestock fencing installation and repair methods including electric fence
Ability to install and repair livestock fences including electronic fences
Ability to lift bales and feed bags and clear ice on water source
Experience operating and performing routine maintenance on ranch, livestock and lawn equipment.

Routine Duties:
Feed livestock daily
Clean stalls and disperse waste
Administer routine medications
Exercise and groom horses and train as directed
Check for illness or injures to livestock and take appropriate action
Secure and supervise the ranch property and activities in the owners’ absence
Schedule and assist farrier
Pick up and haul necessary feed and supplies
Check, and where necessary, repair fences, gates, cattle guards, and electric fence power supply
Check and maintain livestock water supplies and construct/reconstruct water gaps when needed
Load and trailer horses as needed
Water and mow lawns adjacent to the caretakers house and the barn and mow/trim grass along electric fences
Grade roads and plow snow as needed
Conduct routine cleaning and maintenance of ranch equipment and vehicles and monitor for scheduled maintenance/repairs.

Performance Expectations:
Honesty, integrity and reliability
Regular, thorough and efficient communications with owners regarding, work progress, activities at the ranch and livestock and equipment condition
Maintain a safe, healthy, clean and orderly work area
Assure livestock health and safety and maximize performance and condition
Keep the grounds and buildings clean, orderly and attractive
Demonstrate efficiency in energy use, cost effectiveness in purchasing and initiative to suggest operating efficiencies and income enhancements
Maintain a driver’s license valid in the State of Wyoming.

Supervision Exercised and Received
The Ranch Hand will report directly to, and receive direction from, the Owner or the Owner’s Designee.

In the Owner’s and the Owner’s Designee’s absence, Ranch Hand will exercise direct supervision over vendors, contractors and part time employees.

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Talking Waters Ranch
Bobbi Stuckenhoff
149 Robinson Canyon Rd.
Buffalo, WY 82834
Tel: 307.684.2624
Fax: 307.684.0984
E-mail: bstuckenhoff@3riversdbs.net