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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’.

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 cows and bulls – normal, angry, frightened, sick.

2.2 Dairy cattle behaviour is described in terms of the factors contributing to the behavioural moods of anger and fright.

Range cows, bulls.

2.3 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.

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 if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.

Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2013