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Assist with handling cattle in yards

Level / 2
Credits / 2

PurposePeople credited with this unit standard are able to assist with handling cattle in yards.

Subfield / Agriculture
Domain / Cattle Farming
Status / Registered
Status date / 16 April 2010
Date version published / 16 April 2010
Planned review date / 31 December 2014
Entry information / Open.
Replacement information / This unit standard replaced unit standard 24620.
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

Special notes

1Performance of all aspects of this unit standard should comply with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (1992), Code of Recommendations and Minimum Standards for the Welfare of Dairy Cattle, and its subsequent amendments, referred to as the Welfare Code, available at

2Information and resources on cattle handling are found on the ACC website –

3On-farm procedures refer to the verbal or written procedures for moving, restraining, loading, and unloading cattle.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Assist with handling cattle in yards.

Performance criteria

1.1Cattle yard features are described in terms of the reasons why they contribute to the safe handling of cattle.

Rangemay include but is not limited to – level ground or slightly uphill, orientation to sun, drained, clear of obstacles, entrance in relation to fenceline, accessways between and around pens, loading ramp sides boarded up, concreted race and forcing pen, access slots, water trough, freely swinging gates, self closing gates, catwalks on forcing pens, boarded out corners;

evidence required for at least four.

1.2Cattle are moved into and out of yards, under supervision, without injury or undue risk to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.

1.3Cattle are moved through a race, under supervision, without injury or undue risk to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.

1.4Cattle are restrained, under supervision, without injury or undue risk to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.

Rangemust include-hock bar;

may include-head bail.

1.5Cattle are loaded and unloaded to and from a truck, under supervision, without injury or undue risk to cattle or handler(s) 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 if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.

 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018