Farm Worker
Employer: DeWitt's Game Farm, LLC
Location: Ellerbe, NC
Workers needed: 3
Pay: $12.84/hour
Season: Jan 1, 2027 – Sep 30, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
DeWitt’s Game Farm is a gamebird operation producing Bobwhite Quail, Chukar Partridge, and Ringneck Pheasants. The farm raises game birds from egg to mature adult and takes them to market. Employment is temporary and seasonal, beginning January and ending August each year. This period represents the busiest and most labor-intensive phase of the farm’s production cycle due to due to egg production, chick hatching, flock care, and facility maintenance activities.
Workers will perform a variety of farm labor tasks related to the care and production of gamebirds, including tend to laying flocks and newly hatched chicks, Collect, wash, and rack eggs; transfer eggs to incubators and hatchers. Count and handle chicks; clean and sanitize hatch baskets, trays, and equipment. Feed, water, and provide proper care and disease control for birds of all ages. Apply blinders to pheasants (approximately 150,000 birds during the season). Catch, handle, and load gamebirds for sale and transport. Process, skin, clean, and package gamebirds while maintaining sanitary conditions.
Clean and prepare barns, pens, feeders, and waterers between flocks. Perform farm maintenance including: Repairing and fabricating pens, boxes, and other enclosures. Cleaning, disinfecting, and preparing facilities. Mowing, weed-eating, hand-pulling weeds, tilling, planting, and setting feeders.
Perform maintenance on farm equipment, vehicles, and tools. Work will include Intensive cleaning, disinfection, and pen preparation between flocks.
Workers Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and follow all farm rules and disease control procedures to protect bird health
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer does not provide meals. Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Dining, kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas shared by all workers. For workers residing in employer-provided housing, the employer will provide access to one or more passenger vehicles to use once per week to/from closest town or city for personal errands (e.g. groceries, banking services, shopping), The passenger vehicle may be used by licensed and insured workers to transport themselves, and others. Employer does not schedule trips or designate any particular worker to drive. Vehicle use by the workers is voluntary. In the event that kitchen facilities become unavailable during the contract period, employer will provide three daily meals in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(g) In such circumstances, employer will not charge for such meals.
Transport: Employer pays/reimburses foreign workers for all visa-related costs (excluding passport fees) in the first workweek. For non- commuting workers, employer pays/reimburses reasonable travel costs (transportation, daily subsistence, and lodging if applicable) from the place worker departed to the employer’s place of employment.
See Addendum C
Experience wanted: 1 months
Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer.
Employer reserves the right to offer Raises and/or bonuses to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company's sole discretion, based on individual factors including production, work performance, skill, and tenure.
Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds worker's performance during the trial period to be unacceptable. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
The employer may discipline the worker, including brief suspension of work activities/employment for a set period determined by the supervisor or termination of employment.
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