HOW does working for a Welsh international rugby player sound?

Better still, you don’t even have to move out of Powys and down to Cardiff or Swansea for the job – as it’s based in the remote hills of Radnorshire.

Wales and British & Irish Lions stalwart Dan Lydiate is your prospective new boss. The 34-year-old Ospreys flanker – currently battling his way back from a year-long injury that curtailed his chances of being part of Wales’ Grand Slam-winning Six Nations campaign in 2021 – is opening an organic poultry laying shed next month and is looking for someone to look after his chickens.

The affable forward, capped 64 times by the Dragons, says he wants to hear from anyone who’s keen on the role, which will be based in Llanbister, near Llandrindod Wells.

“My organic poultry layer shed will be up and running from February 18,” Dan said in a post on his Facebook page.

“I’m looking to employ someone for the general day-to-day running of the shed. Two-three hours a day near Llanbister, in the LD1 area. If anyone is interested or would like more info, DM me.

“Previous experience desirable but not essential, just someone who is reliable. Please share if you know of anyone locally.”

He’s earned his living and made his reputation in the red shirt of Wales and the Lions – playing a starring role on the Lions’ successful 2013 tour to Australia, in which they emerged with a 2-1 series win. But Lydiate is a country boy at heart – despite being born in Salford – and loves nothing more than pitching in on the family farm at Tynyberth, high up in the hills of Abbeycwmhir, between Llandrindod and Rhayader.

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Lydiate often commutes back to the farm on his days off from Ospreys training, tending to his beloved herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle.

Lydiate has been sidelined since last February after damaging the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while facing Ireland in the Six Nations.

It was a bitter blow for the tackling supremo, who rose to prominence under Warren Gatland after making his Wales debut in 2009. He had bounced back from a two-year international hiatus to make Wayne Pivac’s Six Nations squad last year, but his return lasted all of 13 minutes in the opener in Cardiff against Ireland before he was forced from the field with ligament damage.

The subsequent knee operation ruled him out of a tournament and ended any hopes he had of a Lions recall for last summer’s South Africa tour – the squad lost the series 2-1.