Telehander ticket with various attachments. Also mucking out and carting away with tractor and trailer

Tractor driving - carting to basic cultivations, to hedge cutting and topping/flailing and straw chopper. Drilling experience in Autumn 2022, 2023 and 2024. Have also done a potato planting season on power harrow, bed tiller, bed former and destoner. Range of tractors, including over 200hp. Trailers up to 18T.

ATV Quad bike certificate.

Completed a couple of weeks irrigating and moving potato boxes in the fens during the spring. Plenty of road work on 200+HP tractors.

Completed potato harvest in 2023 and sumo cultivations.

Over 10 years livestock experience, working on a large dairy farm primarily as head calf rearer/youngstock manager, later promoted to temporary assistant manager. Very welfare conscious and have exceptional animal husbandry skills. I have complied to the high standards and regulations of a supermarket milk contract, and have implemented strict biosecurity routines.

Also introduced colostrum protocols and vaccination programmes to ensure all calves get the very best start in life and reduce antibiotic usage as much as possible across the herd.

Other duties include, but not limited to : milking + parlour routine / parlour hygiene, safe handling of cattle of all ages, calving, NMR milk recording, vaccinating + safe administration of medicines, herd health, heat observations, data input and record keeping, stock takes, staff management and leadership.

Solo night shepherdess for 1000 indoor lambing mules and suffolks. Spring 2021.

All aspects of animal husbandry from bedding down to cleaning out and disinfecting, to assisting with difficult lambings, wet fosters, bottle feeding / tubing lambs and identifying and treating sick ewes and lambs. Can ring, tail and tag lambs.

Also assisted on odd days with dagging, shearing and then vaccinating, worming and fly treating the ewes and lambs.

Spring 2022. 3 weeks contract lambing 1400 mule ewes indoors. Followed by solo charge around the clock care of a small flock of pedigree sheep, and also checking on a small beef herd with young calves at foot.

Spring 2022. Solo shepherdess responsible for lambing merino sheep 24/7 for 6 weeks. Then stayed on to help out with calving a small start up herd of pedigree shorthorns, and continued to care for the ewes and lambs, and the rest of the wool flock through the spring and into the summer. Including vaccinating, tagging, fly spraying, foot bathing, shearing etc.

Spring 23 - contract shepherdess