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Experienced shepherd Farm worker

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Qualifications and Experience
Relevant qualifications

City and Guilds, NVQ Level 1,2,3

Type of farming wanted

Mainly Arable, Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming

Other qualifications

City and guilds HND diploma in work based agriculture gained in 2011 through borders college

Driving Licence

Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence

Equipment experience

Tractor, Baler, Ploughing, PA1, PA2, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing

Livestock experience

Beef, Sheep, Lambing

Other equipment experience

Experience with with loader work , I also have experience with rowing up and tedding for hay, fert spreading also carting silage and carting bales, cultivation work with sumo trio and rolling I also have experience with some fencing work.

Other livestock experience

I have experience working with both beef and sheep on lowland and upland farms, experienced with both indoor and outside lambing. Experienced in general health care for sheep, marking lambs, dosing, jagging, tagging foot care and dipping along with dosing cattle, calving, bedding, feeding.

Personal information
Sex

Male

Other Information

I have 4 working dogs, 1 main working dog 2 collies and 1 huntaway in training

Age

30

Marital status

Yes

Nationality

United Kingdom

Where are you currently living?

Argyll and Bute

First language

English

Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Yes

Other languages

-

Hobbies

-

Pen picture (Height, weight etc.)

-

Relevant health problems

No

Farming background

2010 started working on the farm at weekends then started full time whilst being at college. Working alongside the farm manager and the herdsman working both with sheep and cattle with some tractor work including fertiliser spreading

2012-2013 working on a hill farm mainly with Blackface sheep during the lambing season, lambing both inside and out on the hill. Also mucking out sheds with telehandler , tedding and rowing up hay/silage carting bales.

2020 Lambing job running the shed myself with the odd help. Also mucking out cattle pens and helping with the calving

2021/2022

Working in a large grain handling facility , mainly driving Bobcat telehandler or JCB telehandler filling the intakes making sure moisture was correct after the drying process and general yard tidying

2023

Working on a mixed far for the summer , jobs included cattle work, tagging calves, feeding cattle, dosing cows, other jobs were rolling game plots and spring barley, carting grain to grain shed, carting silage bales to be wrapped , carting and stacking straw, cultivation work using a sumo trio , rolling winter crops, mucking out cattle sheds

2024

Self employed shepherd working on mainly one farm in Northumberland mainly working with sheep

2024/2025

Working as a hill shepherd on a 22000 acre estate on the west of Scotland, with 1000 blackface ewes and 300 mules in by

Preferences
Availability

Start: 08/03/2026 Finish: Not Specified

Preferred region

-

Type of job

Permanent

Where would you like to work?

Happy to relocate to anywhere

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