Maggie Slack

Throughout my experience as a first year Station Hand at Manbulloo Aggregation, I performed the tasks but was not limited to:

• Transport Management: Loading and unloading stock coming or going from various consignments
• Cattle Mustering/ Horses and Care: Riding Horses Mustering cattle
• Feeding cattle
• Working with helicopters
• Overall station duties: Muster cattle (Tag, brand calves, weaning, drafting, culling cattle, vaccine needling, back lining chemical on cattle, weighing cattle, mothering up calves with cows)
• Managing stock waters trough cleaning and maintenance and using Farmbot water monitoring
• Fire fighting/ back burning
• Avenza maps
• Sapien livestock data entry through supercool technology along with accurate record keeping.
• Vehicles: Ride motorbikes (2 wheelers,buggy) Manual P2 license Operating Telehandler, Tractor driving.
• Teamwork and Tolerance: Independence, long hours of work,learning resilience and persistence while working with people outside the company (Contractors, truck drivers, office staff, helicopter pilots)
• Communication: Completing administrative work and communication with all staff at a hight level daily. Documenting and record keeping.
• Courses/Training: First Aid – HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2024) First Aid – HLTAID010 Provide basic emergency life support (2024) First Aid – HLTAID011 Provide first aid (2024)
• Instinct Livestock Handling – Low Stress (2024)
• Wayne Bean horsemanship school (2024)

• Casual farm hand, stocktaking, machinery operation, spraying
• During this time, I gained extensive experience in all aspects of property maintenance, animal husbandry, agricultural maintenance, and the day to day running of the property
• Having worked closely in the family business, I have developed a strong sense of purpose, and feel passionate to continue this work that has been important to my family for many years.

• I will have completed 11 days at Kerwee Feedlot – Jondaryan and I was identifying unhealthy cattle, treating sick animals, vaccinating animals upon arrival, induction of cattle, cattle handling skills, basic knowledge of steam flaking grain, and day to day operations of the feed mill.

• Throughout my experience at AgTrade, I have gained my certificates in Modern Slavery, Green & Giving Interactive, Business ethics, Workplace Bullying, Fatigue Management, Equal Employment Opportunity (Australia), Work Health and Safety (Australia), Appreciate Diversity and Inclusion – Cutting Edge Communication
• I have completed a day in Toowoomba, where I was completing Artificial Insemination (AI) for heifers and running cattle through the cattle yards that are from the Harrow feedlot.
• Have completed a Health Heart Screening (19/07/2023)