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Elements and Performance Criteria
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Performance Evidence
Knowledge Evidence
The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:
type of information on rations, water, housing infrastructure and feeding infrastructure that can be gathered from livestock production and feeding plansprinciples and elements of nutrition and the impact of nutrition on livestock productionnutritional requirements of different livestock species, classes and life stagesimpacts of poor nutrition and unsuitable rations on livestock production, and strategies to mitigate these impactshow rations can be adjusted or modified to benefit sick animalshousing requirements and housing management of different livestock species, classes and life stagesfeeding and water requirements, and feeding and water management of different livestock species, classes and life stages impacts of unsuitable housing, feeding and watering infrastructure on livestock and strategies to mitigate these impacts effects of weather on housing and feeding infrastructure and strategies to mitigate such effectsmethods for using manure as assessment of livestock healthmethods for maintaining, cleaning and removing waste from housing and feeding infrastructuredocumentation, record keeping and methods for monitoring effectiveness of adopted strategies relevant work health and safety, biosecurity, animal welfare and environmental protection requirements and practices