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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Trap animals
   • Develop a capture plan including trap height, location and type, as well as means of attraction, by identifying animal signs and by interpreting drinking, eating, foraging, mating, and sleeping habits.
   • Acquire bait attractive to the targeted animal.
   • Create traps from natural resources.
   • Deploy and camouflage traps on likely animal travel routes.
   • Check traps regularly for captured animals.
2. Slaughter animals
   • Conduct slaughter humanely to cause minimum stress for the animal.
   • Skin or pluck carcass.
   • Hang carcass for butchering.
   • Butcher carcass by cutting edible portions (dressing) of meat and by removing internal organs.
   • Inspect offal for signs of disease.
   • Protect meat from the elements including flyblow, scavenging animals and the sun.
   • Maintain hygiene of the slaughterer.
   • Maintain hygiene of the carcass.
3. Trap animals
   • Develop a capture plan including trap height, location and type, as well as means of attraction, by identifying animal signs and by interpreting drinking, eating, foraging, mating, and sleeping habits.
   • Acquire bait attractive to the targeted animal.
   • Create traps from natural resources.
   • Deploy and camouflage traps on likely animal travel routes.
   • Check traps regularly for captured animals.
4. Slaughter animals
   • Conduct slaughter humanely to cause minimum stress for the animal.
   • Skin or pluck carcass.
   • Hang carcass for butchering.
   • Butcher carcass by cutting edible portions (dressing) of meat and by removing internal organs.
   • Inspect offal for signs of disease.
   • Protect meat from the elements including flyblow, scavenging animals and the sun.
   • Maintain hygiene of the slaughterer.
   • Maintain hygiene of the carcass.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

demonstrating safe knife-handling

constructing, siting, setting and camouflaging the following traps:

simple snare – focusing on the functionality of the snare and the fixing of the aperture

Fig 4 – focusing on the functionality of the mechanism

a frame – focusing on the functionality of the mechanism

ensuring own safety

efficiently despatching the slaughter

removing offal and cuts of meat without rupturing the animal’s internal organs, thereby spoiling the meat

examining carcasses for disease and parasites

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

basic animal anatomy

hazards associated with animals

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