Job Description:

• 1) Attends to poultry used in experimental tests that determine effects of various feeds and quantities of feed on growth and production of poultry: Segregates poultry into groups according to weight, age, and sex.

• 2) Selects, weighs, and mixes feeds, according to specific instructions, and fills feeders for each group of poultry with specified feeds.

• 3) Regulates controls to maintain required temperatures in poultry houses.

• 4) Maintains records of poultry weights, weights and kinds of feed consumed, eggs produced, deaths, and occurrence of poultry diseases, providing information about effects of various feeds.

• 5) Places vaccines in drinking water, injects vaccines into poultry, or dusts air with vaccine powder to vaccinate poultry for diseases, such as fowl pox and bronchitis.

• 6) Ascertains sex of chicks.

• 7) May attach identification bands to legs or wings of poultry.

• 8) May clip wings of fowl to prevent flying, wash and clean poultry houses and equipment, and debeak poultry.