Joy Marie Romen

Currently working in a 6000 sow level farm in Killarney, Manitoba Canada.

HyLife - SWINE TECHNICIAN

Killarney, MB • 03/2023 - Current

• Responsible in daily chores; ie: Feeding, watering and animal health check.
• Administer medication for treatment and prevention of disease and for unhealthy sow and piglets.
• Assist sows in farrowing process.
• Perform piglet day 1 procedures. (drying pigs, split suckling, cross fostering, etc)
• Perform castration and rupture repair procedures.
• Perform processing and piglet shot procedures.
• Feed sows according to stage of lactation, trying to challenge them to eat more.
• Remove dead animals daily and put in pickup area without crossing biosecurity line.

Hilongos, Leyte Philippines • 08/2022 - 02/2023

• Responsible in conducting barangay and town technical seminar/training for backyard farmers with fattening pigs and sow.
• Organize hog raising seminars or trainings.
• Do technical assistance for backyard hog raisers in farrowing sow, piglet processing includes teeth clipping, tail docking and cutting umbilical cord, injecting piglets and sow.
• Convert, encourage, maintain and monitoring costumer's farm to use our products.
• Record keeping for farm performance

Pipestone Minnesota, USA • 06/2021 - 06/2022

• Assist sows in farrowing.
• Assisting with births; Tail docking; Administering iron shots; Assisting with/giving vaccinations; Assisting/Performing castrations; Moving pigs into nursery; Intensive care procedures for nursery and newborn pigs
• Identify little pigs that need to be fostered on and/or off early on (birth to two days)
• Identify sows/gilts that need to be treated and identify appropriate medications needed.
• Correctly administer medication (techniques, dosage, and timing)
• Understand sow euthanization protocol and procedure and timeliness
• Timely treatment diagnosis and recording
• Illness identification and determining cause.
• Know all withdraw lengths.
• Understand/Perform vaccination schedule and procedure.
• Clean feed bowls; Scrape crates; Monitoring environment including temperature control and ventilation.
• Perform euthanization to piglets.

Hilongos Leyte, Philippines • 02/2016 - 06/2021

• Responsible in conducting barangay and town technical seminar/training for backyard farmers with fattening pigs and sow.
• Organize hog raising seminars or training.
• Do technical assistance for backyard hog raisers in farrowing sow, piglet processing includes teeth clipping, tail docking and cutting umbilical cord, injecting piglets and sow.
• Convert, encourage, maintain and monitor costumer's farm to use our products.
• Record keeping for farm performance.

Hilongos Leyte, Philippines • 11/2013 - 01/2016

• Responsible in conducting barangay and town technical seminar/training for backyard farmers with fattening pigs and sow.
• Organize hog raising seminars or training.
• Do technical assistance for backyard hog raisers in farrowing sow, piglet processing includes teeth clipping, tail docking and cutting umbilical cord, injecting piglets and sow.
• Convert, encourage, maintain and monitor costumer's farm to use our products.
• Record keeping for farm performance

Graduated last April 2012 in Visayas State University with the course of Bachelor of Animal Science major in Animal Production.