NZQA registered unit standard
28858 version 1
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Title
Demonstrate understanding of livestock parturition management
strategies and implement a farm parturition plan
Level
4
Credits
10
Purpose
This unit standard is intended for people who are working in a
livestock farming context and recognises the skills and
knowledge necessary to take responsibility for implementing a
farm parturition plan.
Classification
Agriculture > Farming Skills
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Learners must implement an existing farm parturition plan that they may not have
been involved in creating.
2
Evidence presented for assessment against this unit standard must relate to a
farming workplace.
3
Industry parturition targets are the generally accepted goals that members of the
industry follow. Targets vary between sectors and may include lambing %, calving
%, fawning %, kidding %, mortality rates, live births and body condition score at
parturition.
4
Range
Management strategies include – managing dam and progeny condition and health,
before, during and after parturition, environmental factors, level of monitoring.
5
Demonstration of understanding may be assessed in a number of ways, which could
include the ability to complete practical tasks, if it is clear that the understanding is
essential underpinning understanding to the task/s, and that the task/s could not be
completed without the learner having that understanding.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate understanding of management strategies required to achieve optimum
parturition results.
Evidence requirements
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
28858 version 1
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1.1
Demonstrates understanding of management practices that may contribute to
the achievement of parturition targets.
1.2
Demonstrates understanding of the impacts of the parturition management
strategies on farm income.
Outcome 2
Implement a livestock parturition plan.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Implements parturition management strategies to meet farm parturition plan
requirements.
2.2
Maintains records to meet farm parturition plan requirements.
2.3
Monitors and reports on factors affecting progress towards parturition targets.
2.4
Evaluates actual parturition results against farm parturition plan targets.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 28857 replaced unit
standard 1521, unit standard 1530, unit standard 8628, unit
standard 19078, unit standard 19085, unit standard 25378,
unit standard 25379, unit standard 25382, unit standard
25383 and unit standard 25829.
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
18 June 2015
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.
Primary Industry Training Organisation
SSB Code 101558
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
28858 version 1
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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.
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