Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following duties on poultry farm: Catches chickens and places them in crates and poultry houses.

• 2) Sprays disinfectants or vaccines on chickens or in poultry houses.

• 3) Spreads wood shavings over floor, using shovel.

• 4) Cleans droppings and waste from floor, using broom and shovel, backhoe, or manure-cleaning machine.

• 5) Dumps sacks of feed on conveyors and in feeders in brood houses.

• 6) Fills water containers.

• 7) Repairs farm buildings, fences, and shipping crates, using handtools.

• 8) Lengthens and shortens ropes to adjust level of feed cans and water troughs.

• 9) Moves equipment, using wheelbarrow, truck, and cart; or carries equipment from one area to another.

• 10) Shovels manure onto truck.

• 11) May stack and move crated eggs and poultry.

• 12) May drive truck to move and deliver materials.

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