Next Generation Rural Animal Technician (Large Animal) New Zealand Certificate in Animal Technology (Level 5) Rural Animal Technician Strand NZ2490 Subject to NZQA Approval
Level 5
If you’re already working with animals and want to make large animals like horses, deer, pigs, cows, goats and sheep your specialty, then this course takes you to that next level.
This programme covers large animal anatomy and physiology, breeding and feeding, health and wellbeing along with many other tasks that will allow the graduate to work as a Technician in conjunction with a veterinarian.
Graduates will be able to
- Supervise work in client business interface of animal related facility
- Maintain the health and husbandry of animals in a rural environment
- Perform technical tasks for the maintenance of animal health and welfare in the rural setting
- Apply knowledge of pharmacology and current law, to dispense and administer animal remedies
- Collect and/or test diagnostic samples and/or prepare samples for dispatch
Start Date(s)
Various times during 2021Duration
40 weeksTimes
Fulltime 5 days per week. (Available extramurally for people who work with large animals)Price
Fees Free as part of the Government's Targeting Training and Apprenticeship Fund (TTAF)Leads to a Job As
On-farm technician, working alongside a rural vet
Course Brochure
Programmes
Next Generation Animal Care Technology (Companion Animals)
