Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine livestock condition and nutritional requirements
- Monitor and report livestock condition
- Identify livestock production status
- Source livestock nutritional requirements and the nutritional value of feedstuffs from the feeding plan
- Use feeding plans to determine adjustment in response to the monitoring of livestock condition and pasture growth
- Report and separate animals that are in atypical condition, injured or diseased in line with enterprise biosecurity policies
- Apply enterprise animal welfare policies to livestock handling and husbandry activities
- Assess pasture feed
- Assess quantity and quality of available pasture
- Implement grazing management plans and monitor to ensure the sustainable stocking capacity of pasture
- Monitor grazing behaviour of livestock and identify shy or problem feeders
- Determine livestock feeding methods and level of supplementary feeding if required
- Manage the feeding of livestock
- Graze livestock on pasture according to the guidelines described in the feeding plan
- Obtain required supplementary feed
- Provide supplementary feed to livestock in the appropriate manner and times
- Identify and assess indications of any negative environmental impacts and make amendments to the feeding method as required
- Monitor and report condition and live weight response to feeding