Natasha Buchanan

• Expertise in animal health, treating and diagnosing animals, lifting and treating lame cows, setting up vet visits, recording and clearing treatments, bagging down cows, assisting with calvings.
• Dairy hygiene
• Monthly hygiene checks
• Assisting with pasture management, completing farm walks, giving feedback on pre and post grazing residuals.
• Leading the team when manger and 2ic are absent
• Drafting springer and new mums
• Identifying heat cows
• Feeding out supplement
• Milk harvesting
• Effluent spreading
• Stock movements
• Break feeding

For the 23/24 season, I reared 245 happy and healthy heifers. This was an amazing season with having no virus’s, and selling a lot more bull calf’s than expected.

• Setting up systems in place the calf sheds to run smoothly
• Optimising feeding times and schedules
• Working together with bull buyers to maximise sales
• Organising Bobbie trucks
• Tube feeding newborns
• Weighing calf’s and categorising them to get them upto wait the fastest

• Milk harvesting
• Dairy hygiene
• Plant and vat cleaning
• Animal health treatments
• Stock movements
• Feeding out silage and hay bails
• Setting up paddocks and break fences
• Assisting with effluent spreading

• Helping with calf feeding/tubing
• Calf movements
• Calf weighing
• Assisting with milking
• Water blasting
• Shed cleaning

• Helping with calf feeding/tubing
• Calf shed cleaning and hygiene
• Assisting with animal treatments

Providing commercial cleaning to worksites, office buildings and private house's.

Supervised and supported housekeeping personnel to maximise quality of service and performance.

• Provided cleaning and up keep of hotel rooms