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Demonstrate knowledge of safe handling and health problems of dairy
cattle, associated with milking
Level
2
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of:
the welfare and safe handling of dairy cattle; dairy cattle behaviour; and dairy
cattle health problems associated with milking.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Dairy Farming
Status
Registered
Status date
20 May 2008
Date version published
20 May 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
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
Legislation 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 (1992), Code of Recommendations and Minimum
Standards for the Welfare of Dairy Cattle, Wellington, and its subsequent
amendments, referred to as ‘the welfare code’.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Demonstrate knowledge of the welfare and safe handling of dairy cattle.
Performance criteria
1.1
Responsibilities of stock handlers regarding the welfare of dairy cattle during
handling are described in relation to the Welfare Code.
1.2
Safe handling practices are described in terms of the tasks associated with
dairy cattle.
Range
includes but is not limited to – handling bulls in a dairy herd,
handling first-calving heifers, drenching cows, restraining cows in
a bail, moving cows into the dairy, moving cows into and out of
yards, handing cows while in yards, handling cows in loading out
yard for transport.
Element 2
Demonstrate knowledge of dairy cattle behaviour.
Performance criteria
2.1
Dairy cattle behaviour is described in terms of behavioural moods.
Range
2.2
Dairy cattle behaviour is described in terms of the factors contributing to the
behavioural moods of anger and fright.
Range
2.3
cows and bulls – normal, angry, frightened, sick.
cows, bulls.
Dairy cattle behaviour is described in terms of the physical signs and
behaviours of cows during heat.
Range
coming into heat, during heat, going off heat.
Element 3
Demonstrate knowledge of dairy cattle health problems associated with milking.
Range
lameness, mastitis, teat damage.
Performance criteria
3.1
Dairy cattle health problems are described in terms of their cause(s), symptoms,
treatment, and prevention.
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3.2
Dairy cattle health problems are described in terms of the economic
significance, and direct costs of the problem to the dairy farmer.
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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