Available at: Umlazi-V Campus
Programme Overview: This agricultural qualification prepares competent poultry farmers capable of establishing and managing sustainable poultry production enterprises, focusing on modern farming techniques and business management.
Duration: 1 Year (18 Months optional to the college) | Credits: 226 |SAQA ID: 99027
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What You'll Learn
- Poultry breeding and genetics
- Feed management and nutrition
- Disease prevention and health management
- Housing and facility management
- Record keeping and farm management
- Marketing and sales strategies
- Sustainable farming practices
Minimum Entry Requirements
- NQF Level 4, Grade 12 or equivalent, with Mathematical Literacy (the college may recognise RPL against the entry requirements)
- Interest in agriculture and farming
- Basic business understanding
- Physical ability for farm work
Career Opportunities
- Commercial poultry farms
- Integrated agriculture companies
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Own poultry farming business
- Agricultural extension services
Certification: QCTO Occupational Certificate.
Financial Aid: Self-funding for qualifying students.
Knowledge Modules
- Introduction to the poultry farming industry
- The work environment on a poultry farm
- Introduction to poultry production and disease control
- Leading work teams on a poultry farm
- Poultry farm business management concepts
- Personnel management concepts
- Anatomy and physiology of poultry
- Poultry husbandry and healthcare
- Poultry housing and equipment
Total number of Credits for Knowledge Modules: 62.
Practical Skill Modules
- Conduct poultry husbandry and record-keeping practices
- Conduct biosecurity and healthcare practices
- Recognise and address poultry production-related problems observed
- Lead and direct work teams
- Monitor and control costs and stock on hand
- Attend to the personnel management functions on a poultry farming unit
- Attend to the day-to-day management functions of poultry farming activities
- Monitor, evaluate and respond to production trends, at NQF Level 5, 8 Credits.
- Manage the poultry unit maintenance and physical biosecurity measures
- Manage the utilisation of a poultry site or farm, at NQF Level 05, 8 Credits.
Total number of Credits for Practical Skill Modules: 72.
Work Experience Modules
- Production, healthcare and biosecurity practices on a poultry farm
- Provide guidance and address production, healthcare and biosecurity problems on a poultry farm
- Allocate work and direct a work team in different poultry-farming production activities for a period of two weeks
- Poultry farm records and administrative processes
- Management of people, stock on hand and costs of a poultry farming unit
- Attend to the management and reporting on operational planning and execution of poultry farming activities
- Attend to the management, reporting on and control of facility utilisation and maintenance
Total number of Credits for Work Experience Modules: 92. << Back |
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