Abstract:
This industrial training was carried out in Kumi hospital farm (Ongino) in Ongino sub county Kumi district for the period of eight, weeks, staring form 28th February 2022 to 6th May 2022. To fulfil the requirement needed for the award of a bachelor degree in animal production and management in Busitema University. 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. The training started with the orientation of interns to the farm, I participated in several activities that included milking, dipping animals to control ticks, 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, general cleaning of the farm by collection of all polythene bags and burning them, ear tagging using an ear tag applicator to ease identification of animals, vaccination of animal against CBPP, disease diagnosis and treatment of cattle to control diseases like calf sours, mastitis, CBPP, east coast fever under health management. Castration of bulls (Closed castration) using burdizzo to prevent the spread of undesired trait under breeding, under feed management the activities include pasture weeding and pasture establishment, feeding animal with silage to supplement on pasture. the industrial training gave me a lot of skills in diagnosis and management of common diseases and management skills. The responsibility I conducted included vaccination, treatment of sick animals, dipping, feeding animal with silage. 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 by 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. I concluded by saying the training was successful and it gave me field experience due to the many activities I did and learnt. I recommend the university should give internship to student to prepare them for field work.
