Livestock
Courses including transportation of animals, sheep dips and veterinary medicines
Livestock
Courses including transportation of animals, sheep dips and veterinary medicines
Transport of Animals by Road – short and long journeys
We can arrange the assessments for these qualifications through our local City and Guilds NPTC assessment centre, or through Lantra Awards.
The course covers:
- Fitness for travel
- Means of transport
- Use of its facilities
- Loading, unloading and handling
- Watering and feeding intervals, journey times and rest periods
- Space allowances and documentation
Safe Use of Sheep Dips
A one day practical training course on the safe use of sheep dips.
The course covers:
- Use a Sheep Dip Manufacturers Product Label/Data Sheet for essential reference.
- Undertake an assessment of available sheep dip facilities and their operation to the agreed standards.
- Operate within and comply with the relevant Legislative, Welfare, and Environmental requirements.
- Select and wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the tasks required.
- Complete essential records accurately.
- State the identified knowledge that underpins understanding of the control of common external parasites.
- State the identified knowledge that underpins understanding and responsibilities of sheep diseases, use and disposal of sheep dip, handling chemicals/COSHH, Health and Safety, environmental protection, and personal precautions
- Store sheep dip chemicals safely.
- Prepare equipment and dip area following an acceptable procedure, add sheep dip chemicals, and work safely without risk to
- themselves, other personnel, sheep and other livestock and the environment.
- Carry out regular checks of equipment and quantity of diluted sheep dip chemicals.
- Maintain dip in good condition, identify sheep to be dipped and dip sheep effectively, safely and humanely
- Follow a safe disposal procedure for surplus concentrate and diluted sheep dip chemicals.
- Carry out correct procedure for cleaning PPE and any used equipment which may have been contaminated with sheep dip
Course duration: One Day
City and Guilds or Lantra Awards assessment available to undertake also.
Safe Use of Sheep Dips
A one day theory and practical training course in the safe storage and administration of veterinary medicines.
The course covers:
- At the end of the course trainees will be able to:
- Properly use medicines on farm
- Know how to store and maintain medicines
- Describe the differences between vaccines, treatments and supportive therapies.
- Understand the basic differences between antibiotic classes and their appropriate use
- Know the basics of wormers (anthelmintics)
- Know when and how to use NSAID medicines (eg anti-inflamatories)
- Understand the responsibility of those administering medicines to farm animals – Welfare / Safety / Public Health.
- Safely and effectively administer veterinary medicines by different routes – drenching / bolusing / subcutaneous / intramuscular / intravenous injection
Course duration: One Day
City and Guilds or Lantra Awards assessment available to undertake also.
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