During my training through RST, I absolutely loved putting the skills I learnt at workshops to practice at my workplace.
Course Overview
The Regional Skills Training (RST) Animal Care and Husbandry Program offers you the opportunity to gain skills in animal care under the following qualification:
AHC32822 Certificate III in Rural Operations
This course is best suited for students who are a year 11 school student looking to undertake a qualification while still at school.
Students participating in this course will learn the basics of Animal Care and Husbandry practices, animal first aid, wildlife rehabilitation, administering medication, livestock health, nutrition and grooming. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an overnight field trip to Monarto Zoo and receive hands-on experience working in a captive animal facility.
Topics
Students will cover core topics of Work Health and Safety and Environmentally sustainable work practices as well as a selection of industry relevant topics such as:
- Dog care and obedience training
- Pet first aid
- Mating and rearing new born young
- Livestock animal welfare
- Livestock feeding plans
- Livestock administer medication
- Alpaca reproduction and birthing
- Livestock animal health control programs
- Animal nutrition
- Wildlife emergencies
- Wildlife rehabilitation
- Care of birds
- Capture, restrain and move animals
- Microscopes and dissection
Studying with RST
This 18 month – two year program is aimed at students who wish to pursue a career in the Animal Care Industry.
Workshops are delivered face to face in a school environment with field trips to working farms and animal facilities for relevant industry practical training.
Student enrolment is conducted through Term 4 for intake into the following year’s cohort. An information session is held for students and parents to provide further information on the course. Please contact RST or your VET co-ordinator for further information.
Please refer to the course fee sheet for information on fees and charges as well as concessions that may be available.
What our students say
I found my experience with RST helpful and rewarding and gained skills that I still use to this day.
Every part of the course was made to relate to your own business therefore making it all relevant and interesting so you wanted to learn it.
RST offers a wide range of learning opportunities and the staff, teachers and lecturers are extremely helpful and were always available to assist you when needed.
When the RST agronomist visited our farm they saw we were having problems with our capsicums. He then helped us on how to overcome this problem and rang us weeks later to see if they were improving.
The RST staff are very enthusiastic and very keen to help growers.
With RST’s backing, I got to know new information such as how to get firm and the right size and colour of the fruit.
It has given me the ability to apply my learning straight away to the family business and dig deeper, looking beyond the surface questions to keep developing and up skilling.
The whole course is made to relate to your own business. You gain an amazing amount of knowledge no matter what level of understanding you currently have of your business.
During each workshop or assignment, the relevancy, support and encouragement were amazing.
