Placement - Burrows Court farm

Nature of the business:

bulletfarming

Career paths available within this business:

bulletfarmer

General information on what I did during the placement:

bulletcleaned out horses stables
bulletfed the chickens
bulletcollected eggs
bulletexercised horses
bulletcooked food for horse-shows
bullethatched chicks

Daily Diary:

bulletMonday: i cleaned out a baby foals bed, collected eggs from chickens hutch,stood on the back of a tractor and took food down to the horses out in the fields. 
bulletTuesday:i learnt how to tie up a hay ledge net for the horses,fed baby lambs with bottles of milk, collected up eggs again from chickens, stood on back of a tractor and took food down to the horses in the fields
bulletWednesday: collected up eggs again, went out in truck and turned the hay ledge over in field, that day there was a show so I cooked food for the people on the barbecue, cleaned out foal and mothers bed
bulletThursday: I cleaned out 14 stables and took all the rubbish up to the rubbish heap in the wheelbarrow, and got the horses back in from fields
bulletFriday: exercised horse with bruised ankle, took horses back out into fields, fed baby lambs again, collected eggs from the chickens, 2 German women from Nibley House Farm came down to take a blood sample from each of the 40 sheep and each sheep had to swallow a big pill with a number on each.  This helps the farmer trace each sheep if one of them goes missing.  They also wormed and clipped each sheep on one ear with a tag with a number. Each tag is a different colour so the farmer knows which sheep are related.

Location and Travel arrangements:

bulletNorth Nibley/burrows court. I done a 15miniute walk each morning.

Particular skills or abilities needed:

bullethad to be fit and healthy. had to have good stamina. have to like animals a lot.

Health and Safety requirements:

bulletapproach horses from the side not from behind or this could cause the horse to kick.
bulletfarmer supplied me with 'heavy duty' gardening gloves.