Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combinations of following duties concerned with raising poultry for eggs and meat: Removes chicks from shipping cartons and places them in brooder houses.

• 2) Cleans and fills feeders and water containers.

• 3) Sprays poultry houses with disinfectants and vaccines.

• 4) Inspects poultry for diseases and removes weak, ill, and dead poultry from flock.

• 5) Collects eggs from trap nests, releases hens from nests, and records number of eggs laid by each hen.

• 6) Packs eggs in cases or cartons; selects, weighs, and crates fryers and pullets; and records totals packed or crated on shipping or storage document.

• 7) Maintains feeding and breeding reports.

• 8) Monitors feed, water, illumination, and ventilation systems; and cleans, adjusts, lubricates, and replaces systems parts, using handtools.

• 9) May cut off tips of beaks.

• 10) May be designated according to type of farm or product as Farmworker, Brooder Farm; Farmworker, Chicken Farm; Farmworker, Egg-Producing Farm; Farmworker, Fryer Farm; Farmworker, Pullet Farm; Farmworker, Turkey Farm.