Use of the tractor during hay season. Responsible for hitching and unhitching flatbed trailer, loading bales, carting and stacking.

Daily use of tractor including cleaning out barns, using palette forks to move equipment, feeding, emptying grain trailer etc.

I finished my Level 3 qualification in Animal Management in 2018, at Distinction Level. Throughout the course, we worked with a variety of different farm animals including sheep, goats and donkeys on a daily basis during routines.

After college, I moved to the Isle of Wight where I worked/lived on a sheep and beef farm. We had 540 Scottish mules and 25 Hereford Cattle. During my time on the farm, I got to experience a variety of jobs including two lambing seasons, worming, crutching. sheering, calving, fencing etc.

I travelled in Canada in 2020, where I worked on two different sheep farms. The first farm had 110 St. Croix sheep and the main focus was lambing, whilst the second had 700 Corriedale sheep where I again assisted in lambing, but also worked alongside the head shepherd to assist in movements, worming, shearing etc.

After returning to the UK, I moved to Dorset to work on a sheep dairy farm. There were 1100 Dorset and Friesland sheep here, and my main role was milking them twice a day.

Following this, I moved to Hampshire for an opportunity at a mixed estate farm. There are 200 sheep all of mixed breeds, 60 milking goats, poultry, 8 pigs and 10 Alpacas, 4 milking cows. Responsibilities include milking goats and cows, sheep movements, worming, kidding, lambing etc.