New Zealand Certificate in Pork Production
Level 3
Overview
Level of study
Level 3
Cost (incl GST)
Was $1,150, now $575*
Length
13 months
Prerequisites
Learners must be employed in the sector.
*Get up to 50% off fees in 2024, only applies to funded learner fees. Learn more here.
May be eligible for Government Support including Fees Free. Learn more here.
Non-funded fee from: $3,172.58. Please note, this fee will only apply for non-funded learners – learners who are not employed in the industry, do not meet the entry requirements of the programme, or are not classed as “domestic learners” under the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) funding rules. For more information, visit the TEC website here.
Summary
Learners will be able to operate as a stockperson in a pork production unit and can progress to roles such as a section manager, with responsibility for one section within a pork production unit, with varying responsibilities depending on farm structure.
Learners could also progress to roles such as husbandry specialists, to improve production in several sections, or across the pork production unit.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this programme, learners will be able to:
- Maintain pork production unit hygiene
- Care for newly weaned pigs
- Care for grower pigs
- Prepare pigs for transport
- Understand feeds, nutrient requirements and pig feeding
- Prepare pig feed by milling and mixing or prepare and operate a feeding system for pigs
- Understand pig health, health problems, behaviour, biosecurity, welfare and productivity
- Identify signs of health and ill health in pigs, and perform preventative health procedures
- Understand pig anatomy, physiology and reproductive processes
- Understand weaning, grower and weaner pig housing, husbandry and carcass classification and perform calculations
- Perform on-farm husbandry procedures on sows and boars
- Carry out husbandry procedures, reproductive procedures, and selection of breeding stock on a pig farm
- Care for the sow and litter from birth to weaning
- Prepare sows to farrow
- Understand pig reproduction
- Understand farrowing and post-farrowing care of the sow and litter
- Understand breeding herd turnover
- Understand pork production unit effluent management and describe environmental implications.
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