Job Description:

• 1) Grades baby chicks according to appearance and separates healthy from deformed or diseased chicks: Examines baby chicks for curled toes, blindness, misshaped beaks, discolored downs, and abdominal rigidity.

• 2) Examines chicks for symptoms of diseases, such as bronchitis and navel infection.

• 3) Segregates healthy from diseased or deformed chicks.

• 4) Places diseased chicks in incinerator.

• 5) May press beak of chicks against hot wire to remove tip of beak.

• 6) May pack chicks in cartons.