Im Melissa,from Leicestershire but willing to travel anywhere.I have my main experience in sheep and poultry (free range) but wanting to expand my horizon/knowledge on whats about, currently doing lessons till an availability for my driving pops up. Willing for any challenge
BTEC, NVQ Level 1,2,3
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
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Provisional
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving, Poultry
used telehandler plenty of times before
quadbike - for fencing
Volvo loader - plant operator
JANUARY 2018 AUGUST 2020
LIVESTOCK ASSISTANT
My responsibilities as a livestock assistant were to muck out, feed, bed down, check animals health and welfare also doing fencing job. Helping round the yard where is needed and others. My main duties were working with sheep and lambs, day to day duties driving telehandler around also a tractor to get from a to b .
Lambed 1200 ewes
Market tavern 2018-2020
Waitressing on wedding events and young farmers
Taking food out, cleaning up after advents, Glass collecting
Washing up
Public House, asfordby-2019-2019
Kitchen porter
Washing up pots and cleaning the kitchen
Putting salads on side of the plates
Hotel 2020-2020
Waitressing
Asking for orders drinks, bar work , taking food , setting up tables and clearing down tables at the end
JANUARY 2020 JUNE 2020
POULTRY WORKER
Working with 20,000 hens, duties consisted of egg collecting, grading, checking water levels and charting them down with the feed numbers to. Cleaning the eggs once collected and once grated sorted into s m l xl. Other duties was cleaning the work area so no cross contamination.
October 2021-February 2022
Poultry worker
Working with 6,000/12,000 hens.
Welfare checks ,egg grading ,checking water and feed
Cleaning dirty eggs and sorting out between good and bad eggs
March-May
Milking 50:50 parlour
550 jerseys
Bob cat scraping out
Checking rounds on sheep and cattle
Bedding calves down , feeding calves
Washing down parlour
TB testing
Volunteer work
Milking- checking for mastitis ,cleaning udders before milking and after .
Cleaning down parlour at the end of day , getting all the girls in, putting in freeze brand to the system . Checking on whats having antibiotics and making sure to not mix the milk with the good milk .
Ive milked 500/600 dairy in the 3 places Ive volunteered at
Lambing and calving
1st march 2022 to 6 may 2022
Lambing 500 ewes and calving 600 shorthorns
Lambed 300 ewes dec 2022 - first jan -2023
Fencing with rappa on quad bike
Wrapping up
Female
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20
single
United Kingdom
Leicestershire
British
Yes
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Outside of work I do a lot of baking in my spare time best is my lemon drizzle or my banana loaf Id say, going out with my mates to game shows and banger racing. Most of all spending time with my family is my mine life outside work as they mean a lot to me
5'7 brown hair and blue eyes
migraines
2019-2020-lv2 agriculture brooksby college
2019-still continued -
been doing livestock work with sheep mainly,i started lambing then went on doing other jobs like worming,weaning,drenching,moving sheep about to different fields.i enjoy working with sheep.jobs aside with sheep was wool wrapping and bedding down when lambing.Working with sheep i enjoy the most as have more experience in doing work with them as i find great interest.dairy-milking,making sure milk is all healthy and making sure tits are in good condition too also hooves.fencing jobs here and there
2020-2020-
poultry work what i did was working on a free range farm in market harbough,working with about 20,000 hens.
the jobs i did was collecting the eggs from both side,then having to clean them after to go on the belts to get sorted,after cleaning the eggs we had to sort from firsts and seconds,seconds went to the side.other jobs i did was egg grading that is sorting eggs from XL,L,M,S and stamping them to get packed away.every hour we checked if the chickens where smothering on the nest box side and the other side too.
2021-22
Poultry,
Lincolnshire
Welfare checks
60,000 hens
Egg grading
Water temp checks
Stamp eggs
22-22
Farm
Dairy 550 jersey cows
Sheep routines , cow routines
Wipe down teets, check for mastitis , medication given when needed
Start: 04/02/2025 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
Anywhere along as its welcoming