An industrial training report on animal production and management carried out at national animal genetic resource centre and data bank, Kasolwe stock farm

Abstract

This report contains all activities done, skills gained, qualification gained, challenges faced, conclusions and recommendation derived from the challenges encountered during the IT at KSF NAGRI & DB Kasolwe located in Kamuli district. The main objectives of IT is to enable students apply the theory got in lecture rooms into practical in the field, build confidence to more practical skills on the section of attachments. The training was conducted in KSF from 19/06/2023 to12/08/2023 from Monday to Saturday in a week 7:00am to5:00pm. On reporting we were oriented by the manager and our field supervisor on different sections on the farm which include goat, cattle, pasture, feed mill plant, poultry, I did a number of activities e.g. In poultry I carried out cleaning of drinkers, turning of litter, feeding collecting of eggs, In pasture I carried out silage packing ,hay making, bailing with a tractor , goat did castration, deworming ,spraying ,ear tagging, census, cleaning, goat categorizing in cattle I carried out general inspection, census, prophylactic treatment, pregnancy diagnosis, artificial insemination, disbudding, ear tagging, spraying, feeding .In fish I carried out silting, fish sampling, fish tagging, feeding, slashing, In feed mill plant I carried out branding, sitching, weighing, In dairy unit feeding, cleaning, collecting silo bags and burning. I recommend that the farm should complete the farm residential houses to solve the problem of long distance that make student report late, attendants should be willing to talk in English.