NZQA registered unit standard
19118 version 3
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Title
Describe ruminant digestion, and feed ruminants to meet production
targets
Level
5
Credits
8
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working in a ruminant
production system context and recognises the knowledge and
skills required to describe the way in which ruminants
metabolise food constituents; and demonstrate understanding
of feeding ruminants to meet production targets.
Classification
Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Production target – the quantified output for a farm for a defined period. May include
but not limited to production units for – weight gain, condition score gain, milk
production, meat production, wool production or velvet production.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe the way in which ruminants metabolise food constituents.
Range
evidence is required for one class of ruminant.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Explains digestion in terms of energy and protein metabolism.
1.2
Explains digestion in terms of the breakdown of gross energy to metabolisable
energy.
1.3
Describes livestock requirements for protein, energy, minerals and vitamins.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate understanding of feeding ruminants to meet production targets.
Range
evidence is required for at least one production target for one species of
ruminant.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
19118 version 3
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Evidence requirements
2.1
Formulates rations for ruminants to meet specific production goals.
Range
2.2
must include pasture and a supplementary feed.
must include mega joules metabolisable energy (MJ ME).
Calculates the cost of the formulated ration.
Range
2.3
must include cents/MJ ME.
Describes feeding systems and strategies for feeding selected rations.
Range
frequency of feeding, introduction of feeds, changing feed types.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions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
25 June 2002
N/A
Review
2
23 April 2008
N/A
Review
3
16 April 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.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). 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.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
19118 version 3
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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