EIT Trades Academy Animal Care Level 2
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Earners of the Animal Care NCEA Level 2 badge have learned to handle and provide appropriate care for livestock and domestic animals through Hawkes Bay School’s Trades Academy at EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology) Hawkes Bay or Tairāwhiti. These learners have gained knowledge and practical skills in caring for and managing a range of animals.
- Type Validation
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Free
Earning Criteria
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In this course the learner gained skills in: Behaviour and welfare of domestic animals; Animal handling; Monitoring animal health; Looking after animal housing; What and how to feed animals.
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Learners have been assessed and passed a range of items including: Demonstrate knowledge of requirements relating to transport of cats and dogs; Monitor health and provide husbandry for reptiles and amphibians; Catch, pick up, carry, hold, and handle poultry in a poultry production operation; Monitor health and provide husbandry for rodents and rabbits; Monitor health and provide husbandry for caged birds; Identify, handle and care for dogs
Standards
People credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate knowledge of preparations needed for transporting cats and dogs to a specified destination; and describe requirements for receiving cats and dogs into a specified animal facility after travel within New Zealand.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify reptiles and amphibians; handle a reptile and an amphibian; feed and water a reptile and an amphibian; demonstrate knowledge of health and ill health in reptiles and amphibians, and appropriate responses; and describe reptile and amphibian aquaria and equipment.
This unit standard is for people working in a poultry production context. People credited with this unit standard are able to: catch, pick up, carry, and hold poultry, and present for husbandry procedures; and place poultry into and remove from containers and/or housing systems.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify the characteristics; handle; care; describe health, ill health, and clinical signs requiring isolation; carry out routine health procedures; describe infectious diseases and parasites and their prevention and control programmes; and ideal housing for rabbit and rodent.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify caged birds; handle a caged bird safely for routine activities; feed and water; describe indications of health and ill health, and appropriate responses; carry out routine health procedures for a caged bird; and describe and maintain caged bird housing and equipment.
This unit standard is intended for people working in an animal care context. People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify dogs by breed, age, sex, and individual characteristics; handle a dog; and feed, water, house and groom a healthy dog.