Colomba Mahapatabendige Fidel Heyshan Peiris

  • Farm Assistant
  • Sri Lanka
  • May 03, 2019
Full time Apiculture

Personal Summary

“Great enthusiasm about the Livestock industry and willingness to pursue a successful career in this field. Possess excellent academic credentials and valuable experience in Livestock production. All round understanding about all aspects of dairy farming as a business, including challenges that the Livestock business is currently encountering. Self-motivated with an outgoing personality and excellent operational skills with the ability to take up challenges and to work under tremendous work pressure in any position in the Livestock industry."

Work Experience

Livestock Farm Assistant
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 Suduwella Dairy Farm

Responsibilities:

Calf Rearing: Neonatal calf handling, Colestrum feeding, Bottle feeding, Bucket feeding, Shed cleaning and maintaining, Debudding, Dehorning, Ear tagging, Tattooing, Weaning.

Milking: Portable machine milking two times in the day with strip cup test, pre dipping and post dipping. Ensure 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, Bio security system management.

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

Dairy Farm Assistant
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019 Agro Focus Dairy Farm

Farm is known as Agro Focus Dairy Farm located in Kimbissa, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. Milk 350 Jersey/ Friesian cross cows twice a day for the majority of the year.  250Heifers purchasing through the 20,000 Cattle Importation Project Implementing under the Ministry of Rural Economy Affairs.

It’s including,

 

  • Standard Dairy Barn with proper cooling and Ventilation Facility
  • Modern Milking Parlor with Milk cooling facility
  • Feed Bunkers & Silage Bunkers
  • Drinking and Washing water facility
  • Manure Handling System
  • Feeding Facility with Mixer wagon

Responsibilities:

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

Milking: Portable machine milking two times in the day 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, Bio security system management.

Feeding and caring for milking herd: TMR provided at the morning time and cows releasing
for grazing to the paddock at 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: Prepared the electrical fences and change the place of fence to new paddock.

Education

Practical Dairy Management Course
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018 National Livestock Development Board (NLDB), Sri Lanka
High School
Aug 1999 - Aug 2001 St. Joseph's College, Colombo 10