Thushara Ranagalage

▪Calf rearing: Neonatal calf handling, Colostrum feeding, Bottle feeding, Bucket feeding, shed cleaning and maintaining, Debudding, Dehorning, Ear tagging, Tattooing, Weaning.

▪Milking: 12 x 2 milking Herringbone parlor system milking twice daily with strip cup test, pre-dipping and post-dipping. Ensured clean milk containers and equipment.

▪Health Management: Daily herd visit for observation to identify the sick cows. Mastitis detection and treatment, Milk fever detection and treatment. Tick fever detection and treatment, Deworming, Vaccination, Low yielding cow observation, Biosecurity system management

▪Feeding and caring for the milking herd: TMR provided at the morning time and cows are released for grazing in the paddock after morning milking. Dry off pregnant cows with dry cow therapy.

▪Pasture Management: Pasture establishment (Rain irrigated), Supervising pasture cutting, fertilizing and replanting pasture lands

▪Fencing: Preparing the electrical fences and changing the place of the fence to the new paddock.

▪Driving tractors, preparing farmland for growing cattle fodder and maintaining tractors.

▪All duties related to sugarcane production

▪Land preparation

▪Soil conservation

▪Planting

▪Watering and fertilising

▪Insect and pest control and remedies

▪Harvesting and sorting

▪Proper storage and distribution