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Carry out checks, oestrus detection, mating, and culling of breeding
stock in an indoor or outdoor unit
Level
3
Credits
8
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to, in an indoor or outdoor
pork production unit: carry out routine husbandry procedures in the mating
and dry sow area; carry out oestrus detection; carry out mating; and assist
with the identification and selection of breeding stock for culling.
Subfield
Pork Production
Domain
Pig Husbandry
Status
Registered
Status date
19 March 2010
Date version published
19 March 2010
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 22083 and unit
standard 22096.
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
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992.
2
Performance of all aspects of this unit standard should comply with the New Zealand
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare (Pigs) Code of Welfare 2005,
Wellington, available at http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/animalwelfare/codes/pigs/index.htm.
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Definitions
On-farm procedures – the verbal or written instructions to staff on procedures for pig
health, welfare, and management.
Pork production unit – collective term for several pork production sections. For
example, a farrowing section, a grower section, and a dry sow section together make
up a pork production unit.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Carry out routine husbandry procedures in the mating and dry sow area in an indoor or
outdoor pork production unit.
Performance criteria
1.1
Environmental conditions are checked and reported, and adjustments made, in
accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
1.2
quality and quantity of drinking water, temperature, ventilation.
The health of pig breeding stock is checked, problems are identified and
reported, and remedial action is taken, in accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
symptoms – physical, behavioural.
1.3
Sow pig breeding stock showing signs of returning to oestrus are identified and
reported in accordance with on-farm procedures.
1.4
Information is recorded in accordance with on-farm procedures.
1.5
Preventative vaccinations for sow are administered in accordance with on-farm
procedures.
Element 2
Carry out oestrus detection in an indoor or outdoor pork production unit.
Performance criteria
2.1
Sows and gilts are checked for signs of oestrus, and stock in oestrus are
identified and reported, in accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
sows – newly weaned, mated;
gilts – replacement, mated;
visual check on behavioural and physical signs, run with boar,
back pressure test.
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2.2
Safety procedures are followed at all times when moving and handling stock in
accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
use of stock board, handler's position in relation to stock, escape
route.
Element 3
Carry out mating in an indoor or outdoor pork production unit.
Performance criteria
3.1
Stock to be mated are moved to the mating pen with minimal stress and without
injury to stock or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.
3.2
Courtship is observed to ensure that fighting or bullying does not occur in
accordance with on-farm procedures.
3.3
Mating is supervised, and assistance appropriate to the situation is given if
required, in accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
examples of assistance – hand assistance, positional change;
evidence is required for at least one of – natural mating, artificial
insemination.
3.4
Stock are returned to their own pens on completion of mating with minimal
stress and without injury to stock or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm
procedures.
3.5
Safety procedures are followed at all times when moving and handling stock in
accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
3.6
may include but is not limited to – use of stock board, handler's
position in relation to the animal(s), escape route.
Mating details are recorded in accordance with on-farm procedures.
Element 4
Assist with the identification and selection of breeding stock for culling in an indoor or
outdoor pork production unit.
Performance criteria
4.1
Pig breeding stock performance records are checked, and candidates for culling
are identified on the basis of their reproductive performance in accordance with
on-farm procedures.
Range
parity, litter size born alive, piglet survival, milk yield, litter size
weaned, litters per year, not-in-pig sows, abortion, returns to
service, anoestrus, temperament, boar performance.
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4.2
Pig breeding stock are checked for signs of disease and physical deficiencies,
and candidates for culling are identified and reported, in accordance with onfarm procedures.
4.3
Information on culling criteria is recorded in accordance with on-farm
procedures.
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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