Use of tractor, supported by a tractor driving course organised and held by Lantra Awards, to perform several tasks in farm; i.e. feeding bales of silage to stock, transporting bales of straw to lambing pens, load buckets with tarmac to fill potholes on the farm road, scraping the cow shed, rowing silage fields, moving silage bales from the field, amongst others.

Repairing some fencing around the farm through replacing posts and/or post and rail when necessary.

Also have trailer licence (cat B+E), ATV and UTV driving course.

Experience mainly on all tasks related to sheep, from lambing to gathering, drenching/worming, checking/treat feet as well as perform other preventive health checks and care . On the system where I presently work lambing occurs outdoor from April 15 onwards and recently a rotational grazing system has been introduced in order to graze the fields more efficiently and get the best nutrition out of the grass.

In terms of beef I oversee the welfare of a small herd of Highland Cattle. I have previous experience of helping to perform routine tasks in a bigger comercial herd, like scrapping, bedding, feeding amongst others, when the cows were housed for the winter as well as with calving outdoor. When needed I helped the team intervening. I also help to perform another tasks related to the beef enterprise like worming, tagging calves, weighing calves and cows as well as condition scoring them.