Dairy Farm Worker
Bulacan Dairy Multi-Purpose Cooperative Inc.
02.2015 - 08.2017
- Milking cows twice a day, Portable Milking Machine
- Get cows in from the pen to milking machine
- Prepare all the materials, tools, medicines needed in milking
- Cleaning the cow
- Feeding
- Providing the proper ratio of feeds required for each cows, (Fresh and dry grass, hay, crop residues, legumes, concentrates.)
- Gazing
- Grace the animals to each fresh grass from the pasture area.
- Health
- Administering vitamins A,D,E,K,B1,B2,B6 & B12
- Deworming (albendazole) of calves, heifers, breeder, and cows using syringe
- Husbandary Practices
- Disbanding of calves (2 months onward)
- Dehorming of heifers
- Ear tagging of calves (2 months onward)
- Hoof trimming and tail trimming of cows
- Castration for males
- Breeding
- Identify in heat empty dams and heifers
- Inseminating the heat empty dams and heifer (Artificial Insemination)
- Calving
- Assisting pregnant cows when giving birth if necessary
- Setting the pen for the newly born calf using rice straw and rice hull