Field attachment on animal husbandry practices, carried out from Njeru stock farm P.o box 183, Entebe Kiryowa sub-county, Njeru municipality, Buikwe district from 20th May 2019 26th July 2019.

Abstract

This industrial training was carried out at Njeru Stock Farm, which is located along Kampala, Jinja High way 5km off Nyenga road, Kiryowa village, Njeru south, Buikwe district. From 20th May 2019 – 26th July, 2019. During this period, a variety of activities were carried cut e.g. milking, bucket feeding calves, goat management, castration, dehorning, spraying goats and calves, dipping cattle, heat detection, artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, disease diagnosis and treatment, deworming, pasture management and pasture conservation in which new skills and exposure to various field cases of activities were gained. However, number of challenges encountered especially lack of enough equipment like pangas, hoes and slashes, poor pastures, lack of source of information and lack of sufficient drugs for disease treatment, the industrial training was very beneficial in building up my future career and improving on my professional ethics as related to my course of animal production and management.

I would recommend that the administrators of Busitema University provide some little amount money to the field supervisors to motivate them to provide sufficient training and skills to students during the field attachment. To Njeru Stock Farm, I recommend that the managing staff equips the farm with sufficient tools, introduce other enterprises like poultry to utilize fully the vast farmland, bid for more drugs from the government for proper disease control and also renovate some of the farm building especially the milking parlor and the calf pen.