Farm Worker Available (Accommodation Needed)

Ivannnnn

23 year old Croatian citizen currently living & working full time on a dairy farm in North Germany for the past 4 months.

With my employment coming to an end at the end of the month I have decided to take a challenge and try it in Ireland.

I'd prefer a dairy farm but would also consider any other type of farm.

- B driving licence (no tractor driving licence unfortunately).
- solid English
- 4 months (at the moment) of milking experience (6 hours per day)

So, to be honest, not too much that I'm offering except some milking knowledge, reliability and readiness to learn to do things the way you want. Everything else you'll have to train me.

Could start from the beginning of January '15. Accommodation required.

This is probably not sounding too promising to you but try me out, give me a trail.

Send me a PM if you're interested or have questions.

Best Regards,
Ivan

Dawggone

Ivannnnn wrote: »

23 year old Croatian citizen currently living & working full time on a dairy farm in North Germany for the past 4 months.

With my employment coming to an end at the end of the month I have decided to take a challenge and try it in Ireland.

I'd prefer a dairy farm but would also consider any other type of farm.

- B driving licence (no tractor driving licence unfortunately).
- solid English
- 4 months (at the moment) of milking experience (6 hours per day)

So, to be honest, not too much that I'm offering except some milking knowledge, reliability and readiness to learn to do things the way you want. Everything else you'll have to train me.

Could start from the beginning of January '15. Accommodation required.

This is probably not sounding too promising to you but try me out, give me a trail.

Send me a PM if you're interested or have questions.

Best Regards,
Ivan

Would you be interested in a move to France ?

Ivannnnn

Dawggone wrote: »

Would you be interested in a move to France ?

It's more complicated with France for Croatian citizens. A work permit would be required.

Dawggone

Ivannnnn wrote: »

It's more complicated with France for Croatian citizens. A work permit would be required.

A permit could be arranged once you don't have criminal convictions.

cjpm

Dawggone wrote: »

A permit could be arranged once you don't have criminal convictions.

And the weather is nicer in France too

Ivannnnn

Dawggone wrote: »

A permit could be arranged once you don't have criminal convictions.

Thanks for the offer, have given it a thought. But would hate living in a country which language I know nothing of. So, have to refuse, sorry.

Bump.

Ivannnnn

Now even considering offers with very low wages. But short term in that case (2-3 months).

longgonesilver

Hi congratulations on your excellent english.

Please tell us more about yourself and dairying in Germany.

kowtow

Ivannnnn wrote: »

.. would hate living in a country which language I know nothing of.

As a blow-in in Cork I know exactly how you feel.

Ivannnnn

longgonesilver wrote: »

Hi congratulations on your excellent english.

Please tell us more about yourself and dairying in Germany.

I'm a mechanical engineering college dropout. Had the wish to both leave home & save money. Since the later is hardly possible in Croatia and since I'm anyway open to traveling and living in other countries I decided to go to Germany (know the language well and work permit not too hard to get). Chose farm work because it was arrangable by phone and came with accommodation. Didn't regret it. The position is only until the end of the year (4.5 months) after which I planned on finding work in another dairy farm in Germany (which is very easy). Then, recently, I got the idea to move to Ireland. If I have to move anyway, why not then, change the whole country and make it a more interesting experience, I thought.

Would post a picture of myself but am not allowed as a new member.

I could say that I am reliable (haven't missed a milking in these 4.5 months), that I do things throughly and am willing to learn but I realize that this doesn't carry a lot of weight since this is the internet.

The farm where I work has a herd of about 350 cows + offspring. The cows are in a stall and never go to pasture (Think this is common in Germany unlike in Ireland). They're fed corn and grass. Last time I heard the cows were on average giving 34 liters of milk per day.

We are milking in a side by side parlor with 28 places on each side. The milking machines(in absence of a better word) have to be carried from one side to the other. Milking is done by 2 milkers 3 times a day, every 8 hours and lasts for about 3 hours. In the mornings and afternoons the two milkers are supported by another worker who brings the different cow groups to the parlor and back to the stall, cleans the boxes and the stall and helps cleaning the parlor at the end. I did this occasionally but 90% of the time I am milking.

I am milking 2 times a day with another 2 hours spent doing different general work, nothing too important though, since there are already other workers in place for this. I am mostly cleaning (power washing, cans, stall and whatever). The responsibilities of a milker here are as usual, probably the same as in 99% of diary farms so no point in listing them.

I'll leave it at that.

dontom

Ivan, would you consider to do some forestry work ?

Muckit

Better english than some of us jirish posters! Stay on the continent! If you are bored of Germany why not go to France or Netherlands? Better opportunities if you decide to start out on your own.

Mehaffey1

Have seen a few comments around French dairying. Also have a few dutch friends who I haven't heard complaining about farm work being hard to get.

To be honest I'd bite a hand off for farm assistant position including accommodation on a good Irish dairy farm.

Dawggone

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Have seen a few comments around French dairying. Also have a few dutch friends who I haven't heard complaining about farm work being hard to get.

To be honest I'd bite a hand off for farm assistant position including accommodation on a good Irish dairy farm.

Would you travel to France ?

Mehaffey1

Dawggone wrote: »

Would you travel to France ?

Yes but not anytime soon. Quite settled in NZ with the missus and I working 4km apart and sharing a house together. Wouldn't be hard to recruit a few young fellas from home surely?

trixi2011

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Have seen a few comments around French dairying. Also have a few dutch friends who I haven't heard complaining about farm work being hard to get.

To be honest I'd bite a hand off for farm assistant position including accommodation on a good Irish dairy farm.

Some amount of farm assistant jobs on grazing farms in the uk if your ever thinking of moving back this side of the world.

trixi2011

Ivannnnn wrote: »

23 year old Croatian citizen currently living & working full time on a dairy farm in North Germany for the past 4 months.

With my employment coming to an end at the end of the month I have decided to take a challenge and try it in Ireland.

I'd prefer a dairy farm but would also consider any other type of farm.

- B driving licence (no tractor driving licence unfortunately).
- solid English
- 4 months (at the moment) of milking experience (6 hours per day)

So, to be honest, not too much that I'm offering except some milking knowledge, reliability and readiness to learn to do things the way you want. Everything else you'll have to train me.

Could start from the beginning of January '15. Accommodation required.

This is probably not sounding too promising to you but try me out, give me a trail.

Send me a PM if you're interested or have questions.

Best Regards,
Ivan

Might be worth sending in a cv to some of the farm recruitment places such as farmsolutions.ie or LDk in the uk

Mehaffey1

trixi2011 wrote: »

Some amount of farm assistant jobs on grazing farms in the uk if your ever thinking of moving back this side of the world.

Only thing wrong with England is the English... Think if I was heading back to Europe I'd make straight for home, too far away ATM to plan visits home easily.

trixi2011

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Only thing wrong with England is the English... Think if I was heading back to Europe I'd make straight for home, too far away ATM to plan visits home easily.

That's mostly the reason i left Nz 2 far away from family especially when people are sick

Ivannnnn

gumtree.ie/a-farming-gardening/meath/milker/1001224940760910360194809
Suiting me perfectly. But too late now.