Location : Delta, PennsylvaniaJob Number : 6346Looking for a job working with horses in southeast Pennsylvania near the Maryland state line?

This beautiful 120 acre thoroughbred race horse breeding farm is located in a scenic rural area less than an hour from Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course and less than two hours from Philadelphia.

The position is full-time with housing and utilities provided. Paid vacation after one year of work. You will be joining a team dedicated to maintaining a stress-free work environment and home for about 100 horses, mostly broodmares, foals through yearlings, and two top ranking Mid-Atlantic Stallions.

If you love horses, this job is for you. This is an opportunity to apply your superior horsemanship skills in the care of world class horses.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a member of a 4-person team you will care for about 100 horses and maintain the farm land, buildings, and equipment. Three members of the team routinely focus on horse care and assist with farming.

The fourth member focuses on farming and assists with horse care. This is not a training or riding position.

Horse Care

Provide daily care, including identification of health issues and proper feeding

Participate in daily chores to include mucking stalls

Handle young horses

Daily exercising of young stock

Handle and halter break foals

Handle stallions and broodmares

Daily exercising

Groom and clip

Sale presentations

Assist up to 6 months of the year with all aspects of breeding and foaling

Stallion handling for live cover

Broodmare management

Foal watch and foaling out

Vet care

Assist with vet work

Give medications and treat minor injuries

Conduct night checks

Farm Maintenance

Groundskeeping

Mow and weed

Mend fences

Minimal landscape maintenance

Building maintenance

Minor carpentry, electrical, and plumbing repairs

Painting as needed

Haul hay and horses with a goose-neck trailer.

Operate, repair, maintain and service the farm equipment

QUALIFICATIONS

Experienced foal watch, foaling out, stallion handling, broodmare, and young stock care. Experienced with performance of daily care, including recognition of health issues and proper feeding.

Required understanding of daily chores to include mucking stalls, mowing and weeding, mending fence, painting as needed.

Handling young horses and stallions helpful. Must have a driver’s license. Pickup truck and trailer driving experience helpful.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Required Experience for Horse Care

3 yrs. experience with broodmare / stallion operation

An aptitude for working with stallions safely

Required Experience for Farm Hand

1 yr. experience farm hand / maintenance

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

A high school or college degree is not a requirement for this position, however, a degree does lend strength to your resume.

Useful education would include a degree in fields such as Equine Reproduction, Animal Science, or Equine Science. Experience is the best education. Experience is a must.

SKILLS

Patience and caring attitude, willing to work and care for horses as if they were your own. An aptitude for working with foals.

Will handle stallions daily so an aptitude for working with stallions safely and with skill a must. Can train some skills, such as AI, injections, clipping etc.

however, you need to be experienced in basic horsemanship.

We constantly strive for performance excellence in breeding and growing world class race horses. That can only be achieved by work and learn as a team.

You should expect to experience person growth in this job.