Male available for Mainly Arable, Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming, Other work

Qualifications and Experience

Relevant qualifications

Not listed

Type of farming wanted

Mainly Arable, Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming, Other

Other qualifications

SQA Highers and Advanced Highers.
HNC Agriculture (SRUC Edinburgh).

Driving Licence

Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence

Equipment experience

Tractor, Ploughing, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing

Livestock experience

Dairy, Beef, Pig, Goat, Sheep, Lambing

Other equipment experience

Tractor driving with a trailer on farm tracks and busy A roads. Hay carting and cultivation.

Used motorbikes and quad-bikes to muster cattle and sheep over rough terrain.

Passed a fork lift training course and have experience driving the forklift in a haylage yard.

Passed a tele-handler training course and have experience using it to muck out barns, feeding and to move objects.

Other livestock experience

I've worked on a local goat/sheep farm on and off for the past 8 years, feeding, mucking out, vaccinations, hoof trimming, weighing and drenching. Most recently, single-handedly ran the farm while the owner had a knee replacement.

Worked on a Wagyu beef cattle station and a Merino sheep station whilst on a gap year in Australia. On the cattle station I helped with mustering and branding of the cattle. On the sheep station I helped with the mustering, tail docking, ear tagging, vaccinations and de-horning.

Worked as a pig stock-man on a 900 sow breeding farm, tasks include, AI, moving livestock, bedding, feeding, vaccinating, giving medicine, weaning, farrowing, general maintenance.

More recently I've worked with dairy goat

which involved milking, cleaning the parlor, hoof trimming, working in the kidding shed, general animal welfare and tele-handler driving.

Personal information

Sex

Male

Other Information

I am young, fit and keen to learn new skills.

Age

25

Marital status

Single

Nationality

British

Where are you currently living?

Glasgow

First language

English

Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Yes

Other languages

-

Hobbies

Cycling, mountain biking, skiing, hill-walking, climbing, horse-riding, running, drone photography.

Pen picture (Height, weight etc.)

Height: 173cm Weight: 74.8kg I was born in Warwickshire, the middle child of three sons, but my family returned to Scotland when I was 5 years old. I attended school in Grantown on Spey where I achieved 6 N5's including English and Maths, 6 Highers and 1 Advanced Higher. Whilst working toward my DofE award I volunteered on a goat farm on the weekends, this is where my interest in farming started.

Relevant health problems

None

Farming background

I'm not from a farming family, but have spent many years helping at weekends on a goat/sheep farm on an estate. I spent 6 months in Australia, first at a training farm and then on a beef station and then a sheep station.

I went to SRUC Edinburgh to study agriculture and have graduated with an HNC.

I worked on an arable farm (family-run farming and feed manufacturing business) during the summer holidays driving tractors, hay carting and cultivating.

After graduating I spent a year working in the maintenance team at an outdoor activity center, whilst furloughed from this job I worked on a Christmas tree farm.

I've worked on a pig breeding farm in Moray.

Then I worked on a 5,000 head dairy goat farm in Yorkshire. I left Yorkshire to help on an Estate while the owner had her knee replaced.

I'm currently working for a local catering business while I look for my ideal goat farm job!

Preferences

Availability

Start: 22/10/2024 Finish: Not Specified

Preferred region

Scotland

Type of job

Permanent

Where would you like to work?

I would like to work in the UK.