Irish beef suckler and hill sheep farmer. Years of experience working as a farm manager and labourer on 2 beef & sheep farms. Qualified in Artificial insemination. Experience in general farm management and trained in Mourne dry stone walling. Work in UK and Ireland.
City and Guilds
Mainly Livestock
Artificial insemination for cows qualified October 2019.
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift
Beef, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
Tractor/ Telehandler experience
I have been the Manager of 2 Beef herds, one suckler-based farm and one beef finishing based farm of 100 cows and 400 sheep and 50 cows and 100 sheep respectively. I have worked throughout lambing and calving seasons on these 2 separate farms for the past 10 years gaining extensive experience on handling animals during these times. Duties included caretaking of livestock on suckler beef and sheep farm to include vaccination, drenching and general healthcare of all animals as well as monitoring store cattle average daily weight gain throughout the month to ensure they meet necessary requirements. Any individual or group of stock not meeting requirements needed investigated as to why and appropriate action was then taken to address this. Experience in book keeping and management of farm records in accordance with DARD farming standards as well as financial records. I am qualified in AI for cows and have been successfully implementing this practice into my own herd and the other farms that I work on. I also source top quality breeding replacements for my own herd from throughout Ireland.
Male
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27
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Irish
County Down
English
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I work for the local council as a Lifeguard.
Height: 6ft Weight: 14st
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Farm Manager & laborer, Own Farm. June 2010- Present.
•Manager of Beef heard of 100 cows and 400 sheep.
•Caretaking of livestock on suckler beef and sheep farm to include vaccination, drenching and general healthcare of all animals in conjunction with DARD standards.
•General maintenance of farm and outlying land including dry stone wall building, fencing and grassland management to include paddock grazing system. Utilising surplus grass yield for silage to be used on own farm to meet feeding requirements.
•Bookkeeping and management of farm records in accordance with DARD farming standards as well as financial records.
•Planning the running of the farm.
•Setting budget and production targets.
•Buying and selling animals.
•Implementing AI for cows in order to improve the genetics breeding for herd.
•Future proofing herd and developing stock standards by researching and sourcing top quality breeding replacements for my own herd from throughout Ireland.
Farm Manager & laborer. Leitrim. June 2010-Present.
•Manager of Beef heard of 50 cows and 100 sheep.
•Caretaking of livestock on suckler beef and sheep farm to include vaccination, drenching and general healthcare of all animals in conjunction with DARD standards.
•General maintenance of farm and outlying land including dry stone wall building, fencing and grassland management to include paddock grazing system. Utilising surplus grass yield for silage to be used on own farm to meet feeding requirements.
•Implementing AI for cows in order to improve the genetics breeding for herd.
•Future proofing herd and developing stock standards by researching and sourcing top quality breeding replacements for my own herd from throughout Ireland.
•stock maintenance
•Dry Stone walling, Tree and hedge planting.
•Protection of Waterways and rivers
•Fencing
•General farm labor.
•Caretaking of livestock on suckler beef and sheep farm.
Start: 17/02/2021 Finish: Not Specified
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Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England.