AS 91295 · 4 credits · Internal
Livestock behaviour
Demonstrate understanding of interactions between livestock behaviour and NZ commercial management practices
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This standard asks you to show you understand how farm animals behave and how farmers manage them in commercial (money-making) operations in New Zealand. You need to explain the two-way relationship: how management practices are designed around animal behaviour, and how animals respond to what farmers do with them.
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- ·Describe specific examples of how farm animals behave (e.g. herding instinct, stress responses, feeding patterns) in at least two different livestock types
- ·Explain how NZ farmers design their management practices (e.g. timing of moves, handling techniques, housing design, feeding regimes) to work with or manage these animal behaviours
- ·Show how animals react to or adapt to different management practices, and what the impact is on farm outcomes (productivity, welfare, safety, market quality)
- ·Connect animal behaviour to at least one commercial outcome (efficiency, growth rate, product quality, animal welfare, farmer safety)
You describe how livestock behave in specific situations and list management practices farmers use, showing basic awareness of how the two connect.
You explain clearly how management practices are adapted to suit animal behaviour, and describe what happens when animals respond to those practices — showing the link works both ways.