NZQA registered unit standard
28857 version 1
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Title
Demonstrate understanding of livestock mating management
strategies and implement a livestock mating plan
Level
4
Credits
10
Purpose
This unit standard is intended for people who are working in a
livestock farming context and recognises the skills and
knowledge necessary to take responsibility for implementing a
livestock mating plan.
Classification
Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Learners must implement an existing farm mating plan that they may not have been
involved in creating.
2
Evidence presented for assessment against this unit standard must relate to a
farming workplace.
3
Industry mating targets are the generally accepted goals that members of the
industry follow, such as pregnancy rates, scanning results, foetal wastage rates, birth
rates or percentages, mortality rates, and weaning rates.
4
Demonstration of understanding may be assessed in a number of ways, which could
include the ability to complete practical tasks, if it is clear that the understanding is
essential underpinning understanding to the task/s, and that the task/s could not be
completed without the learner having that understanding.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate understanding of management strategies required to achieve optimum
mating results.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Demonstrates understanding of management practices that may contribute to
the achievement of mating targets.
1.2
Demonstrates understanding of technologies available that may contribute to
the achievement of mating targets.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
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28857 version 1
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Demonstrates understanding of how genetic selection contributes to achieving
optimum mating targets.
Outcome 2
Implement a livestock mating plan.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Implements management strategies to meet livestock mating plan
requirements.
2.2
Maintains records to meet livestock mating plan requirements.
2.3
Monitors and reports progress towards mating targets.
2.4
Evaluates results of livestock mating against livestock mating plan targets.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 28858 replaced unit
standard 1521, unit standard 1530, unit standard 8628, unit
standard 19078, unit standard 19085, unit standard 25378,
unit standard 25379, unit standard 25382, unit standard
25383 and unit standard 25829.
Planned review date
31 December 2020
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
18 June 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0052
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
28857 version 1
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Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the CMR. The CMR also includes useful information about
special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training
programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special
resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016