Abstract:
This report was prepared during my industrial training that lasted for a period of eight weeks starting from 28th February to 22nd April. The major objective was to fulfil the requirement needed for the award of Bachelors in animal production and management in Busitema university Arapai campus. It's always carried out by students in order to put theoretical aspect got in class into practice with the aim of acquiring skills for farm management, learning and judging the performances of different dairy breeds of animals.
During the course of the industrial training, I participated in several activities that included milking, feeding animals with silage, dipping animals for tick control, bucket feeding using powdered milk to boost their immunity, culling of sick animals to control the spread of the disease to the health stock, cleaning of the milking parlour by scrubbing, vaccination of animals against CBPP, general cleaning of the farm stead by collection of all polythene bags and burning them, ear tagging using an ear tag applicator to ease identification of animals, treatment on cattle to control diseases like calf sours, mastitis, CBPP, east coast fever. Castration (Closed castration) using a bardizzo, and pasture management (planting, weeding)
However, a few challenges were met like; there was a serious a problem of CBPP and mastitis. The challenge was managed by general vaccination of all animals that were not yet affected for CBPP and treatment with Sulphur drugs (baclean) for animals affected mastitis. There was also a serious problem of ticks that was managed by regular dipping of animals twice weekly.
Even though there were some limitations and challenges during this training, I conclude that the internship ended very well.
As a result, I therefore recommend the following to be done; the farm management should lobby more funds from donors in order to speed up the process of farm rehabilitation, provide enough equipment’s for practical aspects to enable all internees to participate practically, to the university assessment from the university supervisors should be more frequent in order to help students improve on weak points.
