sebastian barrientos

My name is Juan Sebastian Barrientos Tabares, I´m 31 years old and I’m from Medellín-Colombia. Currently I’m living in Caledon-Ontario with a permanent residence status and I’m working for a beef and agriculture farm for 3 years.

I look forward to work in a good company, supporting their vision and their needs in a team environment. I have a great sense of belonging, with the ease of teamwork and great capacity to make the tasks assigned. I am dynamic, liable, friendly, honest, I respect the rules of the company; I am ready to learn and make the tasks assigned with the same objective of the organization.

When I was a teenager I helped my uncle with his small farm, after I started the college and I got Job as cashier in the Colombia’s bigger supermarket for almost 7 years to cover my studies in the college on Animal Husbandry. Later I got an Internship in Wisconsin-EEUU working in a beef farm with veal calves for the first 6 months. My duties were mixing milk replacer with NRV mixer of 90 gallons, calculated medicine to be mixed with the milk replacer, fed 800 baby calves from 1 week old to 2 months old in huts and individual pens with bottled milk replacer, rationed grain for calves, tube-fed water and electrolytes to calves, sorted and graded baby calves and steers depending on the weight, the gender and the breed, castrated, dehorned and ear-tagged cattle.

After I started to drive different agriculture equipment like tractors on difficult soils (swampy, inclined and snowy): New Holland T6-180, John Deere 6140 D, John Deere 6140 R, TMR Mixer PATZ 2400 Series 650, JCB Loadall, Bobcat S750, S130 and S770, New Holland 195 Manure spreader, H&S GM 170 grinder mixer, Vermeer CPX9000 Bale processor, Kubotas and Four wheels.I distributed rations to: 700 beef animals with weights 100-300 pounds (14000 pounds of feed), 500 beef animals with weights 300-500 pounds (10000 pounds of feed), 400 beef animals with weights 600-800 pounds (8000 pounds of feed) and30 heifers with weights 1500 pounds (600 pounds of feed).

I worked with machinery to formulate rations to beef animals (ration made of hay, corn silage, corn, oat, distillers, soy bean, minerals and syrup). Also more of my duties were grinding corn, pushed feed with skid steers, cleaned bunks, got silage with JCB Loadall, crushed hay and mixed feed to take ingredients with bobcat, bedded cattle with bale processor, cleaned pens with bobcats, organized bales of hay and pallets of supplies with skid steers, moved cattle with four wheels.

I worked with animal health; Coordinated closely with veterinarians to implement their health protocols, medicated animals from 1 week old to animals 14 months old with 1500 pounds’ weight (in pastures, group and individual pens, and huts), took temperatures, applied injections as needed, gave pills, assisted births, milked 15 hospital cows, helped with routine herd checks, vaccinated in skin, nose and mouth.

When I got done my internship in Wisconsin I came back to Colombia and I got my diploma in Animal Husbandry from my college “Corporación Universitaria Lasallista” then I travelled to Canada to work as Animal care specialist in a beef farm in Caledon-Ontario.

In this company I’m the person responsible for the livestock, my main duties are; checking cattle and treat any sick animal with veterinarian protocols, management of feeding rations balancing amounts of ingredients like corn silage, high moisture and dry corn and balage of Rye grass, oats peas and barley, and Alfalfa. Feeding large cattle with TMR Mixer, Case payloader and skid steer. Cleaning and bedding pens in feedlot with bale choppers, payloader and skid steers. Taking care of breeding cows and nursing babies calves. Also I work with a turkey barn for capacity of 2000 toms.

I have duties in as well cutting hay with disc bine, ted and raking hay, baling, wrapping or stacking bales round and small bales of hay or straw. Spreading manure on fields, packing fields with land roller, helping harvest season moving equipment and loading grain on grain wagon and unloading grain on bins with augers.

In Colombia got a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Husbandry in 2019 which was approved by WES “World Education Services” (Educational Credential Assessment for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) in 2021.