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Enter and walk through a poultry shed, inspect poultry and equipment,
and identify health and ill health in poultry
Level
2
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: prepare to enter a poultry
shed; enter and walk through a poultry shed; inspect poultry, the
environment, and equipment; and recognise signs of health, and clinical
symptoms of general ill health in poultry.
Subfield
Poultry Production
Domain
Poultry Husbandry
Status
Registered
Status date
22 August 2008
Date version published
22 August 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 17999 and unit
standard 18008.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
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
Performance of all aspects of this unit standard must comply with:
Animal Welfare Act 1999;
Animal Welfare (Layer Hens) Code of Welfare 2005;
Animal Welfare (Broiler Chickens: Fully Housed) Code of Welfare 2003;
Code of Recommendations and Minimum Standards for the Welfare of Animals
Transported within New Zealand (Code of Animal Welfare No 15);
Welfare codes are available from Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, C/- Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry, PO Box 2526, Wellington, or at
http://biosecurity.govt.nz/animal-welfare;
Above codes collectively referred to as welfare codes.
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In-house procedures refer to the documented procedures for workplace practices
and safety and must meet the requirements of current legislation and codes of
practice.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Prepare to enter a poultry shed.
Performance criteria
1.1
Site entry procedure is carried out in accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
1.2
examples – visitor’s book, showering and washing, changing
clothing, vehicles, equipment.
Clothing and accessories worn are in accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
at least two of – footwear, protective clothing, hat, mask, jewellery,
colour of clothing.
1.3
Hands are sanitised, and footwear sanitised or changed in accordance with inhouse procedures.
1.4
Shed entry is carried out in accordance with welfare codes and in-house
procedures.
Element 2
Enter and walk through a poultry shed.
Performance criteria
2.1
Door is opened and closed in accordance with in-house procedures.
2.2
Progress made through the shed causes minimal disturbance to the poultry.
Range
speed, pauses, movement, noise, light intensity, use of torch.
2.3
Progress and movement is made in a manner that ensures poultry do not crowd
against barriers or in corners.
2.4
Corrective action is taken where required to prevent smothering in accordance
with in-house procedures.
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Element 3
Inspect poultry, the environment, and equipment.
Performance criteria
3.1
Equipment is checked for normal function, and faults are identified, repaired
and/or reported in accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
3.2
drinkers, feeders, lights, fans, heaters, cages.
Environmental conditions are assessed and action taken in accordance with inhouse procedures.
Range
temperature, air quality, light intensity, air speed.
3.3
Feeding and drinking behaviour is monitored, and problems are identified,
corrected, and reported in accordance with in-house procedures.
3.4
Dead poultry are removed, recorded, disposed of, and reported in accordance
with in-house procedures.
3.5
Cull poultry are identified, removed, disposed of, recorded, and reported in
accordance with in-house procedures.
Range
ill thrift, poor condition, injuries, deformities, out of production.
Element 4
Recognise signs of health, and clinical symptoms of general ill health in poultry.
Performance criteria
4.1
Signs of health are identified in terms of appearance and behaviour.
Range
4.2
alertness, feathering, mobility, noise, appetite, water consumption,
droppings, breathing.
Signs of stress and ill health in poultry are recognised and reported, and
remedial action taken in accordance with welfare codes and in-house
procedures.
Range
includes but is not limited to – morbidity, mortality, noise or lack of
noise or abnormal noise, huddling, lack of appetite, loss of
production or growth, reduced water consumption, lameness or
immobility;
abnormal – feathering, droppings, breathing, distribution.
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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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