Veterinary Technician

• May 2020 - Present

Animal Care technician

• Mar 2007 - Present

Taking care of pigs in wean to finish. Including individual pig treatments, vaccinating about 900 pigs every 8 weeks, pressure washing, and shipping markets pigs. Help with bleeding and taking samples when needed.Also do tillage work in the spring and fall, planting, and running the corn dryer.

Animal Care Technician

• Dec 2014 - Aug 2019

Actively caring for wean to finish pigs by walking all pens daily, pressure washing and properly disinfecting rooms before new groups of pigs enter, vaccinating 500 pigs weekly, and sorting and shipping roughly 500 pigs a week. Also will take any samples that are needed, ie oral, blood, and tissue, and get those mailed. Gilt selection and boar handling is done, too. After selection all replacement breeding stock is properly vaccinated before being taken to the GDU. When necessary will to maintenance work, and run a variety of implement tools during fall harvest.

Farrowing Manager

• Dec 2013 - Dec 2014

Primary duties were ensuring proper care of piglets and the sows.Daily paperwork of sows farrowed that day, and twice a week sows that got weaned. Other responsibilities included vaccinations of piglets, processing piglets, keeping track and ordering needed supplies, and sows got into farrowing on a timely matter.

Day One Pig care

• May 2013 - Dec 2013

Constant care and attention to newborn piglets off to ensure the best start possible. This would be achieved by assisting sows during farrowing, drying pigs off, split nursing large litters, and giving extra attention to piglets that are slow to nurse. After 24 hrs large litters would get properly fostered to a different sow. Any piglets that were not doing well would be given extra attention until doing well. After a whole farrowing room reaches 3 days old the main farrowing employees would take over the normal care.

Internship

• May 2012 - Aug 2012

Learning how to breed sows, teach incoming breeding stock how to use the electronic sow feeders, give weaning vaccinations, learned how to assist sows during farrowing, take care of the piglets, processing litters, and had to help with pressure washing farrowing crates and gestation pens.