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. 

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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

This qualification supports you to grow your skills as a stockperson working
in a pig operation and includes sow and piglet care.

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.

 

Enrolment Forms

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