Job Description:

• 1) Conducts research in breeding, feeding, and management of poultry: Examines selection and breeding practices to increase efficiency of production and improve quality of poultry products.

• 2) Studies nutritional requirements of various classes of poultry.

• 3) Develops improved practices in incubation, brooding, feeding, rearing, housing, artificial insemination, and disease and parasite prevention and control.

• 4) Studies effects of management practices and processing methods on quality of eggs and other poultry products.

• 5) May specialize in artificial insemination.