Job Description:

• 1) Inspects farms for compliance with contract and cooperative agreement standards and advises farmers regarding development programs to aid in producing quality poultry products: Tours farms to inspect facilities and equipment for adequacy, sanitation and efficiency of operations.

• 2) Examines chickens for evidence of disease and growth rate to determine effectiveness of medication and feeding programs.

• 3) Recommends changes in facilities, equipment, and medication to improve production, based on knowledge of poultry farming, hatchery operations and processing.

• 4) Informs farmers of new procedures and techniques, government regulations and company and association production standards to enable them to upgrade farms and meet requirements.

• 5) Recommends laboratory testing of diseased chickens, feeds, and supplements or gathers samples and takes them to plant laboratory for analysis.

• 6) Reports findings of farm conditions, laboratory tests, recommendations and farmers' reactions to keep superior apprised of farmers' efforts to furnish quality products.