June 2024- February 2025. I worked on a mixed livestock farm having full responsibility for 400 breeding ewes as well as looking after rearing calves, store cattle and 1000 laying hens. My main role was in charge of the breeding flock, growing the numbers, picking out fat lambs, monitoring grazing and General sheep and cattle jobs.

August 2023- June 2024. I was a GFW on a Pedgriee Holestin Dairy farm. Milking around 160 cows with Robot milkers. My main role was to help out the owner with the day to day jobs which included, scrapping out, calf rearing, feeding and bedding up.

June 2020 - August 2023 I was an assistant shepherd on an organic sheep dairy. My main role is assisting the head shepherd in the day to day running of the flock, lambing 6 times a year with groups of around 400 ewes in each lambing. I also did vaccinating, worming/drenching, weighing and selecting fat lambs for market, artificial rearing lambs on teat broads, electric fencing and strip grazing, dagging, foot trimming, tagging and footbathing, hauling ewes and lambs between farms and to markets, selecting replacement teasers and ewe lambs. Getting ewes ready for tupping and lambing. I helped with solving on going issues within the flock, relaying information back to the head shepherd. I organise several members of staff daily with jobs that need doing around the yard and speak with our TMR tractor driver about diets for our in lamb ewes and fattening lambs and work our shed/feed space which works best for everyone who is involved. Ive used Tru test scanners and helped with collecting data of the ewes to help improve the flock. I covered the head shepherd role when they were off, which involved communicating with the vets and scanning man if issues arise.

2015- 2020 contract shepherd. I worked as a self employed contract shepherd mainly working on 3 flocks. 1 flock had 1700 commercial suffolk cross ewes and texel ewes, lambing from January to March, i also helped out with selecting fat lambs, worming, dagging, foot trimming and foot bathing, vaccinating and electric fencing. The 2nd flock was a 400 head pedgriee Charmoise Hill flock where i helped with lambing, dagging, foot trimming, gathering and moving stock, selecting replacement females and breeding rams and some showing experience. I also have used shearwell data stock

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The last farm was my own family farm where we had 300 commercial Suffolk cross and 100 North Country Miles breeding ewes lambing March / April which we lambed inside in polytunnels and sold all lambs as fat of a creep base system. We also reared up to 2000 calves a year on contract having groups of around 200 calves every 5 weeks and we fatten black and white bulls where we aimed to get them to 400kg at 10 months old.

I was mainly in control of running the flock and helped out with feeding and rearing calves, weighing, vaccinating, drenching and footbathing, disinfecting sheds, moving stock and general farm work.