Jade Wills

This is my current part time casual dairy farm assistant role where i work in a team environment with communication within the team to ensure that everyone on farm knows and understands what is happening day to day.

• Carried out daily milking operations including milking, vat and plant washes, ensuring animal welfare and milk quality are maximised.
• Maintained the cleanliness of the dairy shed and equipment up to adequate hygiene standards.
• Operated farm machinery such as tractors, 2 wheelers, Manual and Auto utes and feed machinery such as a Feed-out Wagon for silage.
• Monitored herd health, reporting any concerns to the manager and 2IC for their opinion and intervention if needed.
• Treated mastitis cows serious and mild cases.
• Setting up effluent spreader.
• Assisted in mating practices.
• Drenching, Vaccinating and weighing of youngstock.
• Feeding calves
• Set up and taken down fence breaks for herds.
• Calving cows when they needed assistance
• Heavy Rolling

This was a hands on fast paced job working with sheep. this involve alot of travelling from farm to farm around the selwyn and Waimakariri districts communicating with farmers and workers.This role consisted of;

• Setting up the crutching trailer, conveyor trailer and equipment specifically to the sheep yards we were working with.
• Taking down Crutching trailer and equipment.
• Yarding and loading up sheep onto the crutching trailer.
• Drenching and vaccinating sheep.

This role was a school holiday job where i gained experience working with sheep and dairy youngstock.

This job consisted of;

• Loading and unloading Sheep and cattle onto transport trucks.
• Grubbing of weeds
• Crutching hand, tailing and drenching of sheep.
• Moving flocks and herds from paddock to paddock.
• Setting up and taking down break fences.

This job was a part time summer holiday job.

this job consisted of;

• Developing strong relationships with diary cows through gentle handling techniques to aid in the ease of milking.
• Spraying of weeds
• Cleaning milking equipment after milking in preparation for following milking's.
• Feeding Calves