Proven hard worker with experience of arable and livestock operations
City and Guilds
Mainly Arable, Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Eight GCSEs including Maths (grade 7), English (grade 6) and Dual Award Science (grade 6,6).
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Ploughing, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving, Poultry
Scraping out pig units, towing loads including muck spreader, tipping trailer and single and articulated flat-bed trailers on public roads, muck spreading, power harrowing, ploughing, sub-soiling. General tractor and machinery maintenance. Use of telehandler.
Lambing a small flock of texel cross ewes. Worming, administering fly-strike protection, foot bathing and weighing lambs for market. Pig bed and breakfast general activities, for example, scraping out, bedding up and pressure washing between batches. Assisted with administration of antibiotics via injection and made-up medications required for addition to water supply. Treatment for tail biting with spray. Milking on a 50-cow dairy master rotary parlour. Home poultry keeper and 2 days work experience on 150,000 flock chicken operation. Beef and calving experience on college farm.
Male
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18
N/A
United Kingdom
Durham
English
Yes
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Scout leader, outdoor activities
Height 177cm Weight 75kg
None
Interested in farming from a young age having spent many school holidays with my aunt and uncle on their sheep and beef hill farm in Cumbria. Recently completed City and Guilds level 3 advanced diploma in agriculture (livestock) at Houghall College, Durham. Worked on a mixed arable and livestock farm (sheep and pig bed and breakfast) from March 2023 to October 2023. Part-time milking and yard assistant at an organic dairy on alternate weekends.
Start: 12/06/2024 Finish: Not Specified
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Any
Ideally close to home in Teesside and the surrounding area or Penrith and surrounding area, but will consider relocation, particularly if accomodation can be offered.