Hard working, enthusiastic person looking for work with sheep and cattle.
Not listed
Mainly Livestock, Mixed Farming
Currently doing NVQ Level 3 Livestock Technician apprenticeship
Full Car Licence, Tractor Licence
Tractor, Baler, Telehandler/Fork Lift
Dairy, Beef, Pig, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
I have 4+ years experience driving telehandlers and tractors with various implements such as TMR feeder and straw blower, leading trailers/bales, transporting stock to another/market, flat lifting, power harrowing, muck spreading, rolling, topping, tedding and rowing up, bale wrapping, mucking out sheds/scraping yards.
Suckler herds, store cattle, store lambs, breeding ewes/tups, lambing, calf rearing, ponies, some dairy and pigs.
Female
Accommodation may be required depending on location. I have two clean, well behaved collie bitches (semi-working).
30
Single
United Kingdom
Cumbria
English
Yes
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Hiking, exploring and working sheepdogs when possible
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None
Level 3 Livestock Technician Apprenticeship (Cumbria)
Cumbria Connect Nature Friendly Farming Apprentice
Sept 25 Current
I am currently studying/working towards a level 3 livestock technician qualification. I am working mainly across two sites:
• Ernest Cook Trust (Low Beckside) Nature friendly farming, cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens
• Lowther Estate Cattle, water buffalo, pigs and ponies
Blachford Estate (Dartmoor)
Jun 24 Aug 25
Farm worker (350 Cattle, 1200 sheep, ponies & arable)
•Stock work/shepherding
•Transporting livestock to abattoir/market
•Lambing/calving
•Silage bale carting and use of bale wrapper
•Careful working in SSSI areas
Self employed
December 23 May 24
Self employed work around the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria and Lancashire
•Shepherding/stock work on various farms (inc. SSSI areas)
•Kennel maid and canine transport
•Tree planting at Abbystead Estate
CR & CL Donaldson (York)
Farm worker (Store cattle, breeding flock, store lambs & calf rearing)
August 2023 November 2023
•Stock work/shepherding
•Medicating and updating records
•Calf rearing
•Electric fencing
•Processing incoming and outgoing cattle and store lambs (weighing, relevant medications, clipping)
•Leading combined crops and straw (34ft trailer), tedding and rowing up
•Daily use of TMR feeder and straw bedder
Woodhouse Farm (Leeds)
Farm Worker (Suckler herd & arable)
October 2021 August 2023
•General stock work
•Responsible for registering births and cattle movements with BCMS, registering calves with the relevant pedigree society, preparing for Red Tractor visits (plus other paperwork relating to farm)
•Involved with breeding plans for the cattle
•Daily use of telehandler, TMR feeder and straw bedder
•Leading at harvest, flat lifting, power harrowing, muck spreading, rolling, topping, mucking out sheds
Leasbeck Farm (Pickering)
Assistant Herdsperson (Milking)
July 2021 October 2021
•Here I worked on a 450 Summer/Autumn calving herd, assisting in the day to day running of the dairy farm. My responsibilities included maintaining high animal welfare standards, cow and dairy hygiene and meeting organic and farm assurance standards. I also assisted with calf rearing. This included feeding, bedding and vaccinating the calves.
•From May 2021 to July 2021 I had been volunteering every weekend, milking on the employers other farm based in York (350 head spring calving herd)
Start: 22/03/2027 Finish: Not Specified
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Permanent
Due to finish apprenticeship March 2027. After this I will be looking for work with cattle and sheep mainly, in regenerative systems. Location not a big issue but my family are based in Yorkshire. I will be looking for opportunities where I can continue learning regen practices and progress within my career.