Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to identify and mark animals
- Select and check appropriate equipment for correct operation, and maintain or replace as required
- Select appropriate materials and ensure adequate quantities for required task
- Identify, clean and prepare suitable marking sites and facilities
- Prepare and ensure adequate quantities of animal preventative health treatments as instructed
- Identify hazards, control risks as appropriate and report to supervisor
- Select, use and maintain suitable personal protective equipment
- Identify and mark animals
- Muster animals and identify, draft and move young animals to marking site in readiness for identifying and marking
- Carry out animal identifying and marking operations in line with enterprise animal welfare policies
- Carry out contingency plans as instructed in the event of adverse weather conditions
- Identify environmental implications associated with enterprise operations for identifying and marking animals and report to the supervisor
- Complete identifying and marking operation
- Keep tally or record animal numbers as required during operations and assist to conduct and record animal counts at completion of tasks
- Prepare animals and move along a planned route without damage to person, livestock, property or environment
- Clean, maintain and store equipment, materials and facilities
- Report equipment faults or malfunctions
- Dispose of animal residues and waste appropriately
- Monitor livestock behaviour and wellbeing post-operations, and mother-up young animals if required
- Apply enterprise biosecurity and environmental policies where required