This Beef Handling course is offered as a series of weekend workshops at NMIT's Epping farm.
The study topics for this course will be delivered over workshop-style and include:
- introduction to subject and assessment methods;
- assess potential herd health problems;
- plan to move animals to intended destination;
- legal and regulatory requirements for livestock on public roads;
- animal behavior at mustering;
- implement a cattle health contingency plan;
- devise herd health preventive strategies;
- take remedial action;
- livestock identification methods;
- weighting livestock;
- recording individual animal date;
- animal welfare code of practice;
- inspecting cattle loading facilities;
- the dos and don'ts when loading and unloading livestock,
- applying NLIS identification tags and
- complete appropriate paperwork for transport.
Students should complete the application form and a copy of their health care card (if applicable) with payment, post it to NMIT, Agriculture and Animal Science Department, PO Box 8, Epping, Vic. 3076.
The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) offers a range of innovative, practical Vocational Education Training and Higher Education programmes.
The NMIT courses are designed and developed with industry participation to give the student the best employment outcome. Based across the northern region of Melbourne, NMIT has six metropolitan campuses, Preston, Collingwood, Epping, Fairfield, Greensborough and Heidelberg and a rural campus in Ararat.