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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to catch or pick up poultry
   • Follow biosecurity procedures
   • Confirm and identify sheds, flocks and bird numbers to be caught and loaded
   • Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls
   • Select, use and maintain suitable personal protective equipment
   • Dim lights and set ventilation and cooling appropriately
   • Raise feeders, drinkers, nests and perches as required
   • Check and ensure that catching, movement path and vehicle loading area is clear of all obstacles
   • Set up catching equipment according to age, stock type and production system
   • Select, use and maintain tools and equipment
   • Follow relevant work health and safety and animal welfare procedures
2. Catch or pick up poultry
   • Quietly and calmly move birds into catching area
   • Catch and handle birds gently and calmly
   • Place birds in crates/modules according to space or weight requirements
   • Check birds regularly for overheating and smothering
   • Move crates/modules and load onto vehicle gently and calmly
3. Complete hygiene and administration activities
   • Clean, sanitise, maintain and appropriately store equipment and tools
   • Dispose of waste and debris in line with enterprise environmental procedures
   • Complete required records and documentation promptly and accurately

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

follow biosecurity requirements

identify flocks or shed to be caught

make preparations for catching

set up shed and catching area

catch and handle poultry gently, quietly and calmly

load birds into crates/modules according to space or weight requirements

complete hygiene and administration requirements

follow work health and safety procedures

follow biosecurity procedures

follow animal welfare procedures

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

relevant work health and safety requirements

relevant biosecurity requirements

relevant animal welfare requirements and practices

types, uses, cleaning and maintenance of equipment, tools, machinery and personal protective equipment required

techniques and methods for handling, catching, placing into containers and loading poultry

how to assess poultry condition and welfare including overheating and smothering

relevant environmental requirements, and procedures for disposal and management of wastes, debris and fluids

relevant documentation and records that are required

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