Dairy Technical Consultants Africa -DTCA

27/01/2019

Cold nights at the Farm! Hey famer do you have a well lighted igloo for your new baby calves?🐄!

Young calves spend 70% of there time lying down and HATE being in a draught as it makes them I'll.

Providing a "warm sheltered igloo" is our recommended solution to you.

Make the first nights always Merry😊

12/05/2018

At DTCA, we deal in ;
➖General farm management
➖Farm structure design, planning and construction (crush, dip, spray race, calf pens etc)
➖Feed formulations
➖Pasture planting and management.
➖Biogas systems and equipments
➖Provide incalfs and other dairy animald
➖Irrigation systems and services etc
Contact us for great dairy farming ideas and outputs
+256706726367
​meanwhile,​ check out our blog for more information.
https://dairytechconsultsafrica.blogspot.ug
Thanks

16/04/2018

Dairy Technical Consultant Africa​ ​(DTCA)​
Be reminded that we deal in ;
➖General farm management
➖Farm structure design, planning and construction (crush, dip, spray race, calf pens etc)
➖Feed formulations
➖Pasture planting and management.
➖Biogas systems and equipments
➖Provide incalfs and other dairy animald
➖Irrigation systems and services etc
​meanwhile,​ check out our blog for more information.
Call +256706726367 or simply inbox
https://dairytechconsultsafrica.blogspot.ug
Thanks

06/04/2018

Well, after along period of silence, we bring to you a promotion, at only 12M UGX, you can now get a spray race for your farm.
Kindly let us know when you want.
Imbox us for more details

12/02/2018

https://dairytechconsultsafrica.blogspot.ug/p/how-to-make-yogurt-quickly.html?m=1

yoghurt is one of the most nutritious foods . it caontains all the great minerals that can help one live a good a life. among the importan...

31/01/2018

Today we finished our 3 days extensive training in the dairy farming with over 100 participants .
We believe milk production will increase in this area.
Thanks to the new staff that taught financial management to the farmers.
Thanks to our sponsors too.
may God bless you .
Checkout on our blogg for more www.dairytechconsultsafrica.blogspot.com

24/01/2018

yoghurt is one of the most nutritious foods . it caontains all the great minerals that can help one live a good a life. among the ...

01/01/2018

Actually when you look at the layout design and the 3D expresion, there is a change in the arrangement of the structure, but still under the same measurements.
Similary, according to your resources at your site farm, you can change a bit but not the measurements.

Wish you the best of 2018
May God be with you
Shalom

01/01/2018

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟐
𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠:

𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔 (or other crop) that is made by farmers during the summer months when the grass supply is plentiful and not required for grazing. Silage is fed to cattle and sheep during winter months and is made by preserving the grass under naturally produced acidic conditions which effectively pickle the crop. Silage is quite moist and usually preferred by livestock to hay as it is more palatable and of higher food value. It often forms the bulk of the livestock diet for six months of the year through the winter months.

Grass silage is usually produced by stock farmers two or three times a year, however it is the first cut of grass in late May that is the most important. Growth at this time of year is vigorous and the grass is rich in energy as it produces leaf rather than going to seed. Grass crops for silage are fertilised to increase production and can look very much like a conventional arable crop. The image illustrates grass ready for silage making and is typical of the many hundreds of thousands of hectares that are conserved each year.

The first process in the production of silage is mowing. Here a mower is cutting a grass crop that is about 60cm tall. The mower width will vary according to local field sizes but all mowers cut the grass into lines known as a swath which can easly be picked up by a forage harvester (a machine that picks up the cut grass).

Forage harvesters have a series of rotating tines that lift the grass from the ground before feeding it into a chopper. The chopper cuts the grass to a predetermined length before blowing the cut material into a trailer for tansport to the storage area.

In the farm yard the grass is deposited in a heap (the clamp) and pushed up by a handler into a large pile.The process of building the clamp involves the removal of as much air from the grass as possible and to do this the loader or a tractor will repeatedly drive over the clamp.

Most silage clamps are covered with black plastic sheets. Special attention has to be made to ensure that air cannot get into the clamp, either from the top or around the edges. If air does get into the clamp the grass will not ensile properly and the resultant silage will be of poor nutritional quality and of low palatability. At the conclusion of sheeting hundreds of tyres will be used to hold the sheet firm and to maintain the airtight finish until the time of use in the dry season.

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 , 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘶𝘴

01/01/2018

As earlier posted this pic seems unclear , however you can request for a free pdf via our mail: [email protected]
See u their .

01/01/2018

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018, last year, many were asking for a zero grazing unit lay out.
Have this as you start this new year
We wish you the best

26/12/2017

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞?
𝐇𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠:

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝟭

𝗛𝗮𝘆
we all know that in order to chieve milk supply, enough nutrietive feeds should be given to the animals . some of which is hay and silage as tha common and traitionally known.

making hay is the longest established method of conserving grass for feeding cattle and sheep through the winter and has been an important function of the farming calendar in the UK for the last six thousand years. Successful haymaking relies on the crop of grass being thoroughly dried before it is baled or stored.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑝. This usually starts in late June just before flowering however, many crops are cut during flowering itself when lots of pollen is being produced (hence hay fever). Cutting must be done when the weather is fine and several continuous dry days are expected. Hay that has been rained on is of poorer quality and may be unpalatable.

After the crop has been cut it is allowed to dry in the sun. To facilitate this a tractor with a “hay bob” will drive over the cut rows to rough up the drying grass. This helps remove moisture more quickly and makes the baling operation easier to complete.

A conventional baler producing small bales (one is just emerging). Balers work by compressing the hay into a block before tying strong twines around it. Behind this baler is a red trailed sledge that collects the bales together and drops them off at a single point. These can then be picked up more quickly by the front loader and loaded onto a trailer.

A conventional bale wieghs 20kg and is about 1.2 metres in length.

wait for part 2 about sillage