Job Description:

• 1) Attends to ewes during lambing: Observes ewes to determine delivery time and assists ewes during delivery.

• 2) Places ewes and lambs in pens or erects canvas tents and places lambs and ewes inside to protect from elements.

• 3) Assists weak lambs in suckling.

• 4) Administers artificial respiration or stimulants as needed.

• 5) Skins dead lambs and ties skins over live lambs to induce ewes to adopt rejected or orphaned lambs.

• 6) Feeds orphaned lambs from bottle.

• 7) Feeds and waters ewes while in enclosures.

• 8) Docks lambs.

• 9) May castrate lambs.