Station Working

I am a girl that loves working around horses and getting involved with everything. So this is why I want to work on a station.

A station hand is an employee, who is involved in routine duties on a station and this may also involve caring for livestock, too.

Station workers have to keep water tanks and troughs clean and full at all times, maintain machinery, motors and generators as well as keep accurate records of all maintenance. They must identify delivery of water in litres per second, (need a bit of maths here, oh dear! not my strong point!) Checking that holding paddocks and traps are in good order, feed out and record any supplementary cattle lick used and needed and identify and report the conditions of cattle and grass per paddock. You must also record rainfall and maintain rain gauges throughout station. Now the worse bit, collecting dung samples to send for faecal sampling when required. Finally the best bits cattle handling and mustering on both horse, motorbikes and quad bikes, branding of livestock, fencing construction and maintenance, on- farm truck driving  and welding.