Experienced Dairy Farmhand
Not listed
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Telehandler Certification
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Calving
Tractor: Scraping Out, Rolling, some front end loader work
Telehandler: Manitou 634 experience using a bedder, pallet forks, bucket etc
1 year as a farmhand on a spring calving herd in Cheshire, 6 months as a calf rearer on a farm in New Zealand. Confident milking in a herringbone and a rotary parlour. Some experience detecting and treating mastitis. Experience measuring grass cover and allocating breaks. Experience with rearing calves, treating them for pneumonia/diptheria/joint ill etc, dehorning, vaccinating.
Male
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29
Single
United Kingdom
Northumberland
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Yes
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Weightlifting
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2021 Spent 6 months calf rearing on a 650 cow farm in New Zealand.
2023 Spent 10 months working in Cheshire. Initially on a 650 cow block calving unit where I was mainly rearing calves through spring. Then I was asked to move to 2IC at their other unit, autumn calving 300 cows. Spent summer there milking, helping with grazing allocation and other jobs. Then mainly calf rearing again through autumn.
2024 Assistant Manager on a 450 cow farm near Hexham.
Start: 01/12/2024 Finish: Not Specified
North East
Permanent
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