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Manage a natural mating programme for deer
Level
5
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to manage pre-rut, rut, and
post-rut stags and hinds to optimise fawning performance, and manage the
mating programme.
This unit standard is for people involved in supervisory management on a
deer farm.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Deer Farming
Status
Registered
Status date
22 August 2008
Date version published
22 August 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Reference
The New Zealand Deer Farmers’ Landcare Manual, and Deer Industry Manual New
Zealand, available from Deer Industry New Zealand, PO Box 10-702, Wellington.
2
Performance of all aspects of this unit standard should comply with the Animal
Welfare (Deer) Code of Welfare 2007, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, 2007,
available at http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Manage pre-rut, rut, and post-rut stags and hinds to optimise fawning performance.
Performance criteria
1.1
Mating mobs are paddocked and stocked in a manner which avoids the
possibility of conflict during the rut.
1.2
Feed and water availability, and additional feed provided match requirements of
the pre-rut, rut, and post-rut stag and hinds.
1.3
Handling and management of stag and hinds are carried out in terms of
reducing the risk of damage to fences and vehicles, or injury to people and
other deer.
1.4
Before fawning occurs, stags are removed from hinds in a manner which
causes minimum stress or risk of injury to self, other people, or other deer.
Element 2
Manage the mating programme.
Performance criteria
2.1
Implemented management practices maximise hinds’ chances of successful
mating.
Range
2.2
management practices include but are not limited to – proximity of
stag, groupings according to age and species, ratio of hind per
stag according to age and species, rotation of or replacing stags
between hind mobs, condition of hind, timing of introduction of
stags.
Problems associated with mating are recognised, and measures are
implemented to ensure that mating occurs.
Range
health, condition, injury, unusual behaviour.
2.3
Feed, water, and supplementary feed provided meet requirements of deer
throughout the mating season.
2.4
Pregnancy testing procedures are initiated in accordance with the requirements
for identifying past reproductive performance of hind, and identification of sire.
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Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP 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.
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