Hardworking individual with experience working with cows, goats and sheep looking to gain further experience in livestock husbandry
City and Guilds, BSc
Mainly Livestock
June 2017: Level 2 Award in Agricultural Tractor Driving and Related Operations
November 2016: Telehandler licence
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Ploughing, Telehandler/Fork Lift
Dairy, Beef, Goat, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
Tractor driving on family farm including topping, tedding, rowing up, bale wrapping, bale carting, corn carting, ploughing, rolling, power-harrowing, mole ploughing, muck spreading
Used telehandler on family farm and to feed goats whilst working on dairy goat farm in Somerset
Working with suckler herd on family farm
MIlking goats and kid rearing on 2 dairy goat farms
Relief milking cows
Lambing
Female
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23
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United Kingdom
OXON
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- Family farm (suckler beef and arable) (June 2013-present): General animal husbandry including routine feeding of cattle, livestock handling, assisting with calving and monitoring the health of livestock
- Goat herdsperson on dairy goat farm in Somerset (September 2019-April 2020): Milking goats in a herringbone parlour; Kid rearing including assisting with births, bottle feeding/stomach tubing, tagging, castrating, teat training kids onto the milk machine, bedding pens, weighing and recording weights; Daily health checks and communicating subsequent problems to other members of staff; Foot trimming
- General farm worker on dairy goat farm in Gloucestershire for university placement year (June 2017-July 2018): Milking goats; Kid rearing; Responsibility to oversee care of youngstock and work alone, as well as part of a team; Dosing goats with an oral drench and assisting with injections
- Relief milking on dairy farm in Oxfordshire (2014-2017): Milking cows and feeding calves
- Intensive indoor lambing on farm in Oxfordshire (Dec 2020-Jan 2021): monitoring pregnant ewes, assisting with births, moving ewes and lambs to individual pens, injecting lambs and stomach tubing lambs
- Lambing on farm in Buckinghamshire (April 2016): Monitoring pregnant ewes, tail docking and castrating lambs
Start: 24/01/2021 Finish: Not Specified
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