From a young age my parents have had hens or raised broilers. I have been surrounded with chickens my whole life, and I have helped with the upkeep and maintaining of a healthy environment for them. At age 17, I was hired by a Poultry Processing Plant as the Lead processor, where I butchered chickens and fulfilled customized orders for each customer. Here, I learned how to properly take care of and process a chicken. Soon after, I was hired as a Poultry Assistant working for Willow Top Poultry, where I learned proper living conditions for each bird and computerized feed, water, and air quality systems. I feel with my experience over the years I would be qualified for this position and I am willing to learn, grow, and expand. I have a strong work ethic, I am on time and trust worthy. I feel I have good communication skills and am easy to work with and I have a good awareness in problem solving.
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Presently, I work at Willow Top Poultry caring for over 340,000 chickens for each cycle in eight separate facilities, seven cycles per year. I work with a almost completely computerized system which entails performing checks on feed and feed quality, daily water supply and water quality and temperature control system. I help maintain chicken health and maintenance, raising and lowering both feed and water according to growth rate, checking and adjusting air quality, maintain and reset computerized alarm system, disposing of dead chickens in environmental safe bins, performing quality checks on bedding, provide clean mulch and evenly distributing mulch, repair and maintain all aspects in the chicken facility including electrical, water, feed lines, vents, fans, and control room cleaning. I calculate mortality rate percentage per flock and water ratio percentage per flock.
I also work for Cohrs Farms LLC., helping to maintain and farm over 2,000 acres of crop land, operating heavy equipment including multiply tractors, skid loaders along with multiply attachments, augers, grain carts, loading and unloading trailers and hauling heavy equipment. I operate different tractors and grain carts to link with combine during active harvesting, maintaining speed to match combine. then transport corn and beans to grain bins for winter storage. I help prepare and till fields, mow and rake hay and transport bales to a clean, dry storage. I perform excavation work around chicken facilities, barns and grain bins. I haul, lay and spread rock around chicken facilities, barns and grain bins. I helped excavate and pour concrete for a new grain bin. I also do lawn maintenance and landscaping, helped plant approximately 400 trees and bushes and installed an irrigation system.
I help with the care of 70 head of cows, including feeding watering, maintaining and replacing fence, loading, hauling and unloading and assisting the Veterinarians.
I was the Lead Chicken Processor at Duncan's Poultry Plant. I was responsible for butchering many different types and species of poultry, including turkeys, chickens, quail, ducks, and geese. In the butchering room, I was required to kill the poultry, place them into the scalder, transfer them to the plucker and again transfer the poultry to the gutting room. I would gut the bird, examining each bird for any signs of bad meat, or intestinal infection.
I was accountable for butchering the poultry per each customized order depending on the customer request. Examples being, separating and bagging the heart, liver, and gizzard or cutting them into grilling portions, etc.
I was also responsible for State Approved clean up, bleaching and power washing all tools.
I volunteered at Twin Valley Veterinary Clinic in Dunlap, Iowa (November 2017-March 2018) as a Veterinary Assistant. I aided in a variety of large and small animal health checks, giving scheduled vaccination shots and helped with spay and neutering cats and dogs. I performed pregnancy checks on cows, assisted with c-sections on cows and other surgeries, including removing an enlarged, cancerous kidney. I worked a large live cattle auction, moving cattle from pen to pen in a systematic order.
Currently, I am enrolled at Iowa Western Community College taking online classes for Business Administration. I have only two classes left and I am looking forward to graduating Spring 2021.
Attended Northwestern College form August 2019 until December 2019, then transferred to Iowa Western Community College to finish my Associates Degree.
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