Experienced shepherd/ gfw with 2 dogs looking for more sheep work. Work in Somerset/East Devon.
BSc
Mainly Livestock
BSc Agriculture with Livestock production
Full Car Licence
Tractor, Telehandler/Fork Lift
Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Lambing, Calving
Experience hauling grass and maize silage. Have also done hay making using very old basic tractors and equipment. Happy to learn more tractor work just havnt had the chance to do much yet.
Sheep:
Currently - working on a large store lamb enterprise finishing 7000 store lambs over the winter., and then 500 ewe lambs run through the summer. Plus lambing 350 ewes in April outside. large amounts of rappa fencing on a quadbike.
2019 - Worked on farm with 2500 ewes plus store lambs, mostly outside lambing.
2017/18 Running an organic flock of 250 ewes on a large mixed estate, lambing a mixture of inside and outside laming plus 1500 store lambs.
Dairy: currently - relief milking/ calf rearing on local dairy farm.
2018-2020 calf rearing/gfw on autumn calving 300 cow farm, rearing all calves, doing all related calf jobs. Often helping with calving cows when needed. Plus all other general stock work to do with the cows, and all beef bullocks and replacement heifers. and a bit of relief milking when needed.
2017/18 - calf rearing on organic farm part of large mixed estate, 400 cows all year round calving. Plus managing the beef bullocks right through to finishing and picking out cattle for abattoir.
I also have my own flock of pure lleyn sheep, which I have gradually built up since I was at school, Now up to 100 ewes to go to the ram. Finishing most lambs ourselves for a small box scheme and a few pigs for the meat boxes as well.
Female
Would like to find more sheep work, of any kind. South Somerset based but more than happy to travel for the right work.
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United Kingdom
Somerset
English
Yes
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running, spending time training my dogs
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None
I have grown up on a very small family farm where we have always had a small flock of sheep. Which I've gradually built up to now 100 ewes. I buy weaners to finish and sell as meat. And the most recent additions have been buying 40 dairy cross beef calves at approx 2 weeks old to rear through to 5 months old.
I now live on a dairy farm with my partner so am quite involved helping there when I'm free, milking and feeding calves.
Start: 06/10/2022 Finish: Not Specified
South West
Any
Somerset/ East Devon