SkillScorer ships with 5 Livestock & Dairy Farming disciplines and 50 individual skills out of the box. Choose a discipline to see every skill, its description and the levels that come with it — each one fully editable, renameable or removable, and you can add your own to match how your organisation actually works.
10 skills
Beef producers manage animals, pasture and markets across large landscapes. This scorecard covers breeding, nutrition, animal health, handling and marketing so properties can develop stockpeople and compare performance.
- Joining, Pregnancy Testing and Calving Management
- Weaning, Backgrounding and Growth Management
- Pasture Assessment and Rotational Grazing
- Supplementary Feeding and Nutrition
- Herd Health, Vaccination and Parasite Control
- Cattle Handling and Yard Work
- Selection, Breeding Values and Genetics
- Livestock Identification, NLIS and Records
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Sheep enterprises combine meat, wool and breeding skills. This scorecard covers lambing, health, shearing, wool handling and flock management for sheep properties and shearing teams.
- Lambing Management and Ewe Care
- Flock Health and Parasite Management
- Sheep Handling and Drafting
- Shearing Technique and Animal Welfare
- Wool Classing, Pressing and Presentation
- Fly Strike and Foot Care
- Marking, Mulesing Alternatives and Husbandry
- Fencing, Water and Paddock Management
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Herd managers build productive, healthy dairy herds. This scorecard covers reproduction, nutrition, animal health, calf rearing and data use for dairy operations.
- Heat Detection and Artificial Insemination
- Calving Management and Newborn Care
- Transition Cow Nutrition and Ration Balancing
- Lameness, Mastitis and Metabolic Disease Control
- Body Condition Scoring and Culling Decisions
- Calf and Heifer Rearing Programs
- Genetic Selection and Breeding Plans
- Herd Recording Software and Data Interpretation
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Intensive livestock systems demand careful animal health and biosecurity practices. This scorecard covers pen riding, feeding, health, welfare, biosecurity and records for feedlots and piggeries.
- Pen Riding and Cattle or Pig Health Observation
- Feed Ration Preparation and Delivery
- Bunk Management and Feed Intake Monitoring
- Animal Welfare and Low-Stress Handling
- Health Treatment and Record Keeping
- Biosecurity and Disease Prevention
- Water, Manure and Effluent Management
- Machinery Operation in Feed Areas
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Livestock movement and marketing involve welfare, regulation and relationships. This scorecard covers loading, transport welfare, saleyard handling, valuing and selling stock, and compliance.
- Safe Loading and Unloading of Livestock
- Transport Welfare and Fitness to Load Decisions
- Saleyard Handling, Drafting and Penning
- Assessing and Valuing Livestock
- Auction, Private Treaty and Contract Selling
- Livestock Traceability and Movement Documentation
- Biosecurity and Disease Risk Management
- Vendor and Buyer Relationships
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