
I have worked on our family donkey dairy and have helped with my grandparents' wheat farm for most of my life. My duties included breeding record-keeping, putting out hay with a CTL, cleaning pens and shelters, marketing animals, assisting with foaling, mare/foal watch, minimal veterinary care, hand milking our donkeys, processing milk, and daily chores of feeding and watering animals. I have also assisted with artificial insemination of cattle and shadowed large animal veterinarians.
Growing up on a working farm has given me experience with large animals and equipment, as well as a love for that lifestyle. As a result, I know how to behave when interacting with large animals I am also learning how to operate a telehandler, tractor, brush hog, combine, and how to pull a hay trailer and a cattle transport trailer.