Elements and Performance Criteria
- Check health status of animals
- Check condition and health status of animals and confirm against enterprise health strategies and records
- Recognise signs of poor health and condition or abnormal behaviour and report to the supervisor for remedial action
- Arrange preventative health treatments and administer as instructed
- Identify hazards and report to supervisor
- Identify environmental implications associated with production and report to the supervisor
- Identify pregnant animals
- Feed pregnant animal
- Identify nutritional needs of pregnant animals and confirm against the feeding plan
- Identify animals with special feeding needs and give them preferential feeding and record
- Implement supplementary feeding as required and record accordingly
- Maintain a safe and secure environment for pregnant animals
- Handle animals with minimum stress and discomfort to the animals without excessive yarding or shedding in line with enterprise animal welfare policies