Assist with the selecting, preparing and providing of food

NQF Level 2 – US 113821

Question 1.

Explain why personal hygiene is so important when working at the WLC refer to washing your hands, also after smoking; clean clothes; no strong perfumes and at least another two points.

Answer 1.

Smoking and perfume is a strong scent that makes the animal’s stress. You must always wash your hands after smoking because the different or strange scent may let the animal react negative. The same goes for perfume and deodorant, don’t change your perfume keep it the same as the ones you have used from the beginning and don’t use perfume with a strong sent. You can also get diseases from the animals and you can spread diseases between animals too.

Question 2.

Choose 2 examples and describe the feeding plans (amounts, times, types of food); how their food is prepared and why it is being prepared as such.

Answer 2.

The lions (Max and Lex) are fed twice a day and sometimes they are starved for a day to give them the feeling or illustration of being in the wild where they don’t eat every day. Max gets bigger pieces of meat because he eats fatter than Lex, this gives Lex a better chance to eat up all her food before Max steals it from her. A meal for them are 1.7kg of meat with predator powder.

Peanut the giraffe gets fed three times a day. The type of food that she gets is a powder type milk called Dencavit with full cream cow milk diluted with water. The full amount per feeding is 4liters. The reason for diluting her milk with water is because we want to wean her from milk. The Dencavit and cows milk is added before hand and then it is heated in warm water and when warmer luck warm water is added just before the feeding.

Question 3.

Why do certain animals and birds get fed at certain times? Give two examples of animals and or birds and the reasons why.

Answer 3.

Darwin the nyala gets fed 5 times a day. The reason for this is because he is still very young and he needs the nutritious and vitamins to get and stay healthy. The milk he gets contains colostrum that helps his body to build up antibodies.

Phinias the serval kitten gets fed 5 times a day with cat pellets soaked in luck warm water. This is because his digestive system isn’t strong enough to digest meat .

Question 4.

Research what is boskos- what is in it and why do we use it.

Answer 4.

It contains Acacia, combertum, brandybush, lucern, ivomac and dewormer. We use it because it is a all natural product and it also act as a medicine for the animals.

 Question 5

5.  When it comes to provision of food in your wildlife centre, note two animals’ 1. food portion calculations and explain why food is portioned i.e 2 or 3 meals a day.

Answer  5.

10% divide the mass of food by the  times a day the animal gets fed. More % if younger and less % if not active.

Question 6

Describe any possible 2. Medication or pro-biotics that can be added to the food.

Answer  6.

*Pro –biotics,  gut flora or bacteria that are good and helps with digestion.

*Biorem: Rumenens

*Protoxem: Carnivors and Herbivors.

*Dewormer: Tablets and boskos

Question 7.

Create a table of all the foodstuffs,  1. Where and  2. How they are stored and 3. Why tey are stored in these ways and places.

Answer 7.

1. Dry foods need to be stored in a dry cool place and needs to be checked regularly so that it is not wet and starts to rot. Fruits and other foods like meat and milk needs to be stored in a refrigerator and it needs to be in a closed container.

2. If it is not in a bag keep it closed so that it doesn’t get weathered.

3. So that rodent and mites don’t eat it.

Question 8

List the different stages of life,  i.e different ages, stages of reproduction and health and describe how their diet would change.

Answer 8.

You need to give the animal a variety of fruits and meats to ensure the animal gets a balance of vitamins and minerals.

Question  9

What other reasons are there to change food stocks e.g. season? Explain.

Answer 9.

You need to give the animal a variety of fruits and nuts. The changing of seasons are also a factor in the changing of fruits.

Question 10.

Explain the cleaning and sterilising procedures of milk bottles and measuring utensils and why must they be sterilised.

Answer 10.

Because the babies are very sensitive to infections. That is why it so important to clean the bottles this way. Start the cleaning as follow: Remove teat from the bottle and poor out all the milk that is left over from the feeding. Then you must rinse it out with cold water till clean and then with hot water. After that you must submerge the bottle and all the rest in the Milton mix for at least 30minutes for it to sterilise the bottle.

Question 11.

Describe what rot and pest infestations can occur applicable to the disposal of food waste and explain why it is so important to not allow this to happen.

Answer 11.

Pests like flies, rats, mice, fungus ect. They can spread the food lying around. Cross contamination and bacteria can easily be spread by all of the pests that are around. Bacteria build-up will lead to cross contamination. This smells bad and looks bad and at the end the animal’s health is at stake.