GEMMA McCORRY

Under management - David Dougherty & Mervyn Robinson

• Cherryvalley Pedigrees: Beef Shorthorn, Suffolks
• Indoor lambing 1,000 ewes (Pedigree suffolks, suf-tex, suf-cheviots & scotch)
• Calving 70 Beef Shorthorn
• Managing of house day/night during Spring lambing and calving
• All husbandry tasks (dosing, injecting, weighing, tagging, registering, field checks)
• Buying and handing of breeding Rams and bulls
• Preparing for shows, sales and open days
• Halter and handling of young stock
• Controlling working dogs
• Use of tractor, tele handler, quad and gator
• Alertness of pheasants used for shoot days

• Dosing, hoof trimming, heat detection
• General building, mixing concrete and digging.
• Cross breeding Holstein and Brown Swiss.
• Helping with freeze branding
• Husbandry tasks
• Morning and evening milking in a 10:20 swing over herringbone Fullwood parlour milking 150 cows
• Checking all livestock + water drinkers daily.
• Mixing meal (bruising) for feeding cows, heifers, bulls and calves

• Printshop pedigree Holsteins
• 3 times a day milking 24/48 swing over Dairymaster by myself 260-320 cows
• Working alone and/or part of a team
• Clean milking routine checking for mastitis, tubing cows with mastitis.
• Drying cows off
• Dosing – all livestock husbandry tasks.
• DNA Testing
• Getting cattle ready for shows and sales.
• Milk recording
• Heat detecting
• Tubing calves with colostrum
• Dehorning

• 1 of 3 Herds Manager
• Cross breeding Holstein with Norwegian red
• 2 times a day milking 20/40 swing over Dairymaster on own 260 cows
• Working alone are part of a team
• Clean milking routine checking for mastitis
• Dosing, injecting, blood samples – all animal husbandry tasks.
• Helping the vet with scanning.
• Freeze branding
• De-horning
• Spreading dung
• Silage
• Calf – bull beef system 15 months
• Foaling farm (caring for fresh foaled horses, young horses)
• Rearing chickens 0-16 weeks (24,000)
• Welding, grinding, pouring concrete building new sheds.
• Loading un loading straw, fertiliser and sawdust delivers.
• Working overtime on request and through busy periods
• Pre and post calving care
• Milk recording
• Foot trimming
• Diet feeding
• Silage sampling
• Dung sampling.
• Picking/ buying breeding bulls
• AI
• Heat detecting
• TB Testing
• Slurry

• Opening up, setting up card machines, phones and computers.
• Deep clean kennels daily
• Make sure reception was clean and organised for a busy day ahead
• Feed and water all boarding pets (Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Ferrets, Hamsters, Gunnies pigs, Birds even snakes whatever was in that day)
• Leading a team to ensure every dog was walked and there needs where met.