Competent on both manual and automatic quad bikes as well as 4x4 off-road utility vehicles. I have driven tractors with trailers on and telehandlers a few times in the past but I have not had masses of experience using machinery and so I am keen to get as much more as I can. I am competent in driving the scraper tractor at my current part time job on a dairy.

4 months spent maintaining a 116 head flock of sheep and 40 head herd of pedigree Highland cattle in the Scottish inner Hebrides with calving of 21 pure and cross Highland calves.

4 months spent milking 1400 Holsteins on a 70 point rotary twice a day in the Scottish borders and working as the secondary calf woman looking after 150+ Holstein cross calves.

Part time work at university milking 360 Holstein cows on a 12/24 herringbone then a 30/60 swingover parlour as well as feeding the calves in first year then part time work milking 215 Brown Swiss cows on a 20/40 herringbone parlour as well as feeding and bedding down the 40+ cross calves in second year in Shropshire.

Easter 2019 spent lambing 600 NZ Highlander ewes in Northern Ireland as the sole help on the farm. Easter 2020 spent lambing 2000 Lleyn ewes in County Durham during the day shift. All relevant lambing duties such as care of cade lambs also undertaken.

Summer 2019 spent working between a robotic dairy and on a large arable farm doing some light machinery work and general farm maintenance. Both in Suffolk.

Placement year spent working on an 80-head small cheese dairy in Lincolnshire with Friesians and Brown Swiss cows, then working on a 2000-head sheep farm on the salt marshes in Cheshire. All relevant sheep duties undertaken as well as working night shifts for lambing.

Qualifications gained in foot trimming, Blue Seal sheep shearing and AI. Please see attached CV for more information.