2013-2017

From the age of 14 years old, I helped my father milk one hundred cows twice a day on a Dairy farm called Bells and Sons.

2014-2017

I worked at Wensleydale Creamery between the ages of 15-17 years old. My job role entailed taking orders, fulfilling the orders in a prompt manner, cleaning tables and also working in the factory when required.

2017- 2017

I worked for four months in Mcintyre Meats SlaughterHouse for four months.

2017-2018

I worked for Yorkshire Dales National Park as an apprentice ranger where I went out and fixed walls and gates on footpaths on a regular basis . I also went out alot and put in markers for PROW.

2018-2019

Builders labourer for a year for a local builder in Dinsdale, but this stopped due to lack of work for himself.

2018-2019

Bar worker. I had to greet customers, ID (Challenge 21) , take orders for food and drink and handle cash, on occasions I had to serve food to the customers table and bring their drink to them and when everyone left had to help clean the premises.

2019-2020

Worked for J Simpson and son dairy farm for a year doing milking and ferrying cows. They milked 700 plus cows 3 times a day. Also tubing calves and checking and if required calving cows. I also had to do fencing when they needed it to be done.

June 2020- October 2020

Gisburn Auction Mart unloading trailers and penning up animals and moving them too and from the sale ring

June 2020- October 2020

Hoppers removals moving people from houses in way needed, some houses i had to help pack there items, other times it moving items from the house to the lorry, then off load at the end, whilst listening to customers and colleagues instructions as to where to place the boxes.

March 2021 - November 2021

Worked for Yorkshire Dales Meat Company which is a beef and arable farm .They had 150 head of Aberdeen Angus Cattle and 200 acres of arable and 30 acres of grass. I feed the cattle and check them and also do tractor work in regards to leading corn and bales and rolling barley making protein mixes.

November 2021- February 2022

I was employed as head shepherd for a mixed farm of 1200 breeding ewes mainly mules but was also looking after 300 cattle and 1000 store lambs.

March 2022- May 2022

I was taken on as a lamber to help lamb 1100 mule gimmer lambs and 400 mule ewes. I was responsible for checking and feeding ewes, sorting and penning ewes and lambs and tagging, castrating and tailing lambs as well as dosing and other animal husbandry. I was also doing tubing and bottle feeding for pet lambs.

Few odd jobs between May 2022- April 2025 but nothing permanent.

April 2025- May 2025

Me and my partner went to Glenlivet in Scotland to assist with lambing 1600 ewes. They were blackface and mules with some pedigree Leicesters. It was only seasonal work.

1st July - present

I was taken on as stockman for a mixed livestock farm with quite a bit of arable land too. I am responsible for all the day to day animal tasks and health. I have been grading lambs, sorting through breeding sheep and weaning lambs, trailering

sheep and cattle to new grazing, worming and mineral drenching, electric fencing, TB testing, shearling, taking stock to market and assisting with bale leading from the arable and grass fields. They run 1400 Romney breeding ewes and 300 cattle plus young stock.

1998-2021

We used to run a mix of ewes on our family farm. Horned ewes put to the Leicester to breed mules and a continental flock for fat lambs and bred our own replacements. I have worked on cattle to both beef and dairy and we used to run blues and Herefords and lims on our family farm. we used to do everything in house from mole trapping to fencing and drystone walling. All shearing was done by myself as was the mowing, tedding, rowing and baling. All stock was bought by myself and my father with attention to detail. We also rented a lot of land to feed the growing number of sheep we used to have which I pushed to do in order to increase numbers and the quality of the animals. All animals records were done by myself and my father.

Interests and hobbies

Love playing sports and working with animals, especially sheep. I like driving tractors and always strive to be better.

I have a passion for sheep for as long as I can remember and I love it. I dont think of it as a job as its a lifestyle choice. If I could spend all day everyday working with sheep Id be a happy man. I like to keep an accurate count of the stock in my care so I know what I have, where and what needs to be done.