Farm: Tasks included herding cattle and sheep, administering injections under supervision, feeding sheep, bottle feeding calves, filling hay baskets up, mucking stables out, walking horses to and from stables, lambing, helping with TB Testing, observing body conditions of ill animals and telling the farmer if I thought something was wrong with a animal and basic farm yard work.

Horse stables:

In 2019 I worked part time at a horse yard with friesians and stallions. Duties included grooming the horses, leading them in and out of the stables to the fields, feeding the horses, poo picking and mucking out stables.

Heathrow Animal Reception Centre:

In 2018 I went on a two-week work experience placement at Heathrow Animal Reception Center where I handled dogs, cats and some exotic animals. I completed export and import paperwork animals coming through the centre, offloaded animals into export or import, bedded up flight animal crates out, washed kennels out and bedded up for the next animal and I reunited animals with their owners in reception.

In 2017 I carried out a 2-week work experience placement. This included ranger duties as well as monitoring a pig pregnancy scan, hand feeding a barn owl and herding sheep ready for lambing season. This was a great experience and insight into what it is like to work in the farm industry.

I was also a junior ranger at ------------. Tasks included grooming animals, weighing food, cleaning enclosures, interacting with the public, handling animals and learning skills such as hoof picking goats feet. I also took part in constructing a wooden enrichment toy for the new billy goats.

Rescue Stables:

Tasks included cleaning out the stables, bedding up the stables, grooming the horses, taking horses out to fields, helping feed them and also attending to the goats they had on the yard. I learnt many skills over the 3 years that I helped out going there.