Hi Im Ryan im a hard working 35 year old, Northern Irish dairy farmer at management level, with 20 years experience on mainly dairy/beef farms Im looking long term work on a dairy around south east England as my partner of 10 years is from there and looking to move back home closer to family,
NVQ Level 1,2
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Joinery
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence, LGV/HGV Truck
Tractor, Baler, Ploughing, PA1, HGV 2 and 3, Tracked Machine, Other harvesters, Fencing
Dairy, Beef, Calving, Poultry
I have a lot experience on everything to do with the dairy as we done all work in house sliage/slurry reseeding, tankering with 3500g, I had a main role in organising this work, when to cut/slurry sow, and getting the team involved of who was going where and what was to be done. Also done a harvest in England bale chasing on a fastrack and 40ft dolly and lorry flatbed trailer.
Im Ai and footrimming qualified I have an extensive experience with dairy cattle as I have a real passion for the industry, have a extremely good eye for detail, spotting sick animals cows with mastitis, e colie, lameness. Cows having difficulty calving calfs coming back ways / twisted calf beds/ heifers calving big calfs sorting a vet to come for side a door job last season we run 2 Hereford bulls with 90 heifers and 1 of them threw big brutes of calfs, it was hard work with half of them needing assistance. calfs blowing, scour, I do all vaccination of cows and young stock ,Cattle foot bathing 5x week to tackle slurry heal/digi, sorting bulls for factory/calfs for market
Male
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34
Yes I have a partner who works with the nhs and also helps me on the farm, and 2 little daschunds fully housed trained wont be near cattle
United Kingdom
Tyrone
English
Yes
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I like to train gym/running 4 times a week Mountain hiking Going for a few pints
34 years old fit and healthy
No
Currently for the past 5 years iv been assisted manager On a 400 cow indoor high output system averaging 40l, we put the stales to grass after 2nd cut and buffer fed at night as we dont have enough land around yard, my normal day I start milking which takes 5 hours in the morning through a 19 point parlour (far to long) and 4 hours at night, I would milk the 1st batch of highs for hour an half then somebody would milk the rest, I would then go feed calves 6 days a week morning and evening, calfs wer reared in single pens for 10 days then on to JFC calf feeder, extremely good eye for a sick calf, we had a serious out break of micro plasma which I got under control though working with the vet and vaccination all calfs at 3 days old, now mortality has dropped to 1 calf in th last 5 months, which we have calved nearly 200 cows/hefers, calves get 5/ 6 liters of good colostrum over 2 feeds 90 percent fed through a good teat an bottle, bagged if wont drink, then onto Britmilk and gabrovet for 3 days for crypto, horned with paste tagged and wen good and strong put onto the feeder getting them to 9 liters by day 20, then I would start the tmr feeding 5 loads a day through a Keenan 365 feeding the milkers, then on to young stock and beef cattle, I would make the orders for the 2 lorry loads of meal a week, while working with the nutritionist on a weekly basis, then twice a week would trim cows feet on a cow tipper crush and drying of every 2 weeks would do 15/20 on a Friday,
Start: 15/05/2026 Finish: Not Specified
South & South East
Permanent
South of England