Farm worker to manager, herdsman etc. Love working with the animals. A happy, healthy cow, pig, sheep, coincidentally is most profitable. 13 years experience. Milking and everything else, yard work to field work to animal/herd health to record keeping to youngstock managing and calving/lambing.
BSc
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Telehandler ticket
First aid
Calf rearing
Practical welding
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Goat, Sheep, Lambing, Calving, Poultry
Field work including cultivating fertilizing and power harrowing. Muck spreading and tankering and straw hauling. Yard work including scraping and straw chopping and feeder wagon (TMR). Telehandler.
10 years dairy. All aspects. In and out of parlour. Animal welfare and health. Youngstock rearing and managing. Medication. Milking. Feeding.
1 year pig experience. High intensity housed pig unit and outdoor reared 900 sow unit. All aspects.every department.
3 years rare breed beef, sheep, pigs and poultry also, where I was manager and also mostly stockman while wildly understaffed the whole time.
Male
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34
single
United Kingdom
Oxfordshire
English
Yes
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Walk, run, swim, read. Never really had much time for an actual hobby. Like a good pub.
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10 years dairy. Roles including herd manager, assistant herdsman, general farm worker and young stock manager. All aspects. Would be very interested in AI training. And happy to learn anything new I dont know. Currently Assistant Herdsman on 450 cow housed Holstien unit, milking 3 times a day. 16,000 litres per day. Very much would love to get back to a grazing system.
6 months intensive housed pig unit.
All departments; Service, Weaners, Dry Sows, Growers and Farrowing houses
Farm Manager of Rare Breed Farm specialising in Ancient British breeds. 50 White Park Cattle, 50 Portland sheep, 50 Iron Age pigs ( Eurasian wild boar crossed with Tamworth, living in woods )
Start: 14/10/2024 Finish: Not Specified
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Any
Anywhere