This unit specifies the competencies required to manage poultry by-products. It involves rendering poultry blood, managing poultry waste, and cleaning poultry processing area, tools and equipment.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Render poultry blood
Manage poultry waste
Clean poultry processing area, tools and equipment
This unit specifies the competencies required to produce poultry-based products. It involves shifting selected poultry meat for processing, identifying processed poultry based products and packing and storing processed poultry products.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Shift selected poultry meat for processing
Select processed poultry meat based products
Pack and store processed poultry products
This addresses the competencies required to perform pre-slaughter handling. It involves receiving and weighing poultry for slaughter, managing poultry stress, cleaning and stacking catching crates as well as preparing for live poultry collection.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Receive and weigh poultry for slaughter
Manage poultry stress
Clean and stack catching crates
Prepare for live poultry collection
This course addresses the competencies required to handle hatched chicks. It involves chick sexing, trimming chick beaks, monitoring of health, chick packaging, management of unwanted chicks; implementation of hatchery biosecurity measures, and entry of hatchery records.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Implement hatchery biosecurity measures
This course addresses the competencies required to hatch poultry eggs. It involves setting poultry eggs, monitoring egg hatching, transfer of hatched chicks and entry of hatchery records.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Monitor egg hatching
This unit specifies the competencies required to handle eggs for hatching. It involves grading hatching eggs, storage of fumigated eggs and entry of hatchery records.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
This course addresses the competencies required to manage broody hen. It involves preparing to incubate eggs, performing natural egg incubation, feeding the broody hen, and controlling chicken vermin and predators.
Summary of Learning Outcomes
Prepare to incubate eggs
Perform natural egg incubation
Feed broody hen
Control chicken vermin.
Control chicken predators.
This unit specifies the competencies required to brood broiler chicks. It involves preparing achick brooder, feeding brooding chicks, managing brooder house micro climate, maintaining brooder hygiene, performing chick vaccination, controlling poultry vermin, controlling poultry predators and monitoring chick performance.