Job Definition

• Arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies
• Collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale or delivery to market
• Training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
• Monitoring and examining poultry to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition, such as rate of weight gain, and removing weak, ill and dead poultry from flock
• Slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market
• Mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers
• Vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection, or dusting of air
• Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, farm buildings, machinery, equipment and structures
• Monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, and maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities
• Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
• Growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry
• Determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination, and hatching of eggs