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Station Hand (Sheep and Wool)

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Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
Administer medication to livestock
Maintain livestock water supplies
Implement feeding plans for livestock
Prepare animals for parturition
Rear newborn and young livestock
Implement animal health control programs
Identify and draft livestock
Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock
Prepare livestock for competition
Plan to exhibit livestock
Prepare facilities for shearing and crutching
Carry out post-shearing procedures

Equine Veterinary Nurse

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Identify animal anatomy and physiology for animal care work
Communicate effectively with clients and team members
Comply with infection control policies and procedures in animal work
Carry out daily practice routines
Coordinate veterinary reception duties
Apply imaging routines
Perform clinic pathology procedures
Perform clinic office procedures
Coordinate and perform surgical nursing routines
Nurse animals
Carry out medical nursing routines
Provide nutritional advice and support for animals
Provide specific animal care advice
Carry out veterinary dental nursing procedures
Prepare for anaesthesia and monitor animal anaesthesia and analgesia
Assist with the preparation of veterinary drugs and poisons
Contribute to workplace and safety processes
Relate equine anatomical and physiological features to equine health care requirements
Determine nutritional needs in provision of horse health care
Maintain and monitor horse health and welfare
Carry out procedures for foaling down mares

Stud Farm Worker

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
Maintain and monitor feed stocks
Maintain livestock water supplies
Implement property improvement, construction and repair
Provide first aid
Care for livestock in transit
Plan and construct conventional fencing
Carry out basic hoof care procedures
Carry out natural mare mating procedures
Handle horses safely
Handle and care for stallions
Prevent and treat equine injury and disease
Assess suitability of horses for specific uses
Operate tractors

Dairy Farmhand

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Establish pastures and crops for livestock production
Prepare and apply chemicals
Transport and store chemicals
Coordinate milking operations
Plan and construct an electric fence
Implement animal health control programs
Implement feeding plans for livestock
Rear newborn and young livestock
Implement procedures for calving
Respond to emergencies
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Maintain pastures and crops for livestock production
Prepare for and implement natural mating of livestock
Implement property improvement, construction and repair
Administer medication to livestock
Operate a dairy recycling system
Maintain livestock water supplies

Piggery Attendant

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Apply biosecurity measures
Identify and draft livestock
Monitor livestock production growing environments
Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system
Maintain and monitor feed stocks
Administer medication to livestock
Implement animal health control programs
Prepare animals for parturition
Treat rectal prolapse in pigs
Care for weaner pigs
Care for grower and finisher pigs
Mate pigs and monitor dry sow performance
Transport farm produce or bulk materials

Poultry Hand

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Implement and monitor biosecurity measures in poultry production
Comply with industry animal welfare requirements
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Implement animal health control programs
Implement feeding plans for intensive production
Administer medication to livestock
Coordinate and monitor production performance
Brood poultry
Incubate eggs
Catch and load poultry
Clean and disinfect poultry production sheds
Implement pest management strategies
Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system

Beekeeper

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Open and reassemble a beehive
Prepare and use a bee smoker
Assemble and maintain beekeeping components
Manage honey bee swarms
Manipulate honey bee brood
Re-queen a honey colony
Remove a honey crop from a hive
Transport bee hives by road to new apiary site
Extract honey
Manage pests and disease within a honey bee colony
Select and establish an apiary site
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
Provide bee pollination services
Apply biosecurity measures
Respond to emergencies
Coordinate work site activities
Implement the food safety program and procedures

Senior Rural Operations Farmhand

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Coordinate worksite activities
Implement animal health control programs
Identify and draft livestock
Transport, handle and store chemicals
Respond to emergencies
Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
Maintain and monitor feed stocks
Implement property improvement, construction and repair
Plan and construct conventional fencing
Provide on-job training support
Enter and work in confined spaces
Provide first aid
Load and unload vehicles carrying special loads
Licence to operate a forklift

Feedlot Feeding and Milling Hand

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Prepare and apply chemicals
Transport and store chemicals
Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Prepare grain storages
Prepare to receive grains and seeds
Handle bulk materials in storage area
Implement feeding plans for intensive production
Mix and mill standard stockfeed
Monitor pen condition and ration suitability
Demonstrate knowledge of animal nutrition principles
Conduct front end loader operations
Operate specialised machinery and equipment
Operate a grinding process
Comply with industry animal welfare requirements

Feedlot Maintenance Hand

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Prepare and apply chemicals
Transport and store chemicals
Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
Comply with industry quality assurance requirements
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Enter and work in confined spaces
Implement property improvement, construction and repair
Fabricate and repair metal or plastic structures
Clean and maintain livestock pens
Remove and facilitate reuse of effluent and manure from an intensive production system
Conduct front end loader operations
Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
Operate specialised machinery and equipment
Control weeds
Prepare raw materials and compost the feedstocks
Perform machinery maintenance

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