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.
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
Thanks to my studies through RST I have developed such a broad range of in-depth knowledge, physical skills and most importantly confidence in my work. My employees, family, surrounding peers can notice the differences in my work, and for that, I thank RST!
The course timeline is very flexible and works well around the busy periods of farming.
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 RST staff are very enthusiastic and very keen to help growers.
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 hands-on approach that RST provided was extremely helpful, especially since I’m a practical learner.
It will help me be employed into my dream job and have a bigger understanding of Agriculture.
I gained skills in the handling and behavioural study of animals which I still now apply to this day when working with animals. Many of these skills I still use in my current study of Animal Behaviour at a University level.
In year 12 I worked very hard and with the credits that the cert III gave me, I got into Vet Bioscience at Adelaide Uni going into Doctor of veterinary medicine in the coming years.
