- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who attends to poultry used in experimental tests that determine effects of various feeds and quantities of feed on growth and production of poultry. Respnsibilities include:
* Segregates poultry into groups according to weight, age, and sex.
* Selects, weighs, and mixes feeds, according to specific instructions, and fills feeders for each group of poultry with specified feeds.
* Regulates controls to maintain required temperatures in poultry houses.
* 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.
* 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.
* Ascertains sex of chicks.
* May attach identification bands to legs or wings of poultry.
* May clip wings of fowl to prevent flying, wash and clean poultry houses and equipment, and debeak poultry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects semen from roosters and fertilizes hens and eggs. Respnsibilities include:
* Pinions bird, and collects semen in vial.
* Examines semen, using microscope, and records density and motility of gametes.
* Measures specified amount of semen into calibrated syringe and inserts syringe into inseminating gun.
* Injects semen into oviduct of hen or through hole in egg shell.
* Records dates of insemination of hens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects semen from roosters and fertilizes hens and eggs. Respnsibilities include:
* Pinions bird, and collects semen in vial.
* Examines semen, using microscope, and records density and motility of gametes.
* Measures specified amount of semen into calibrated syringe and inserts syringe into inseminating gun.
* Injects semen into oviduct of hen or through hole in egg shell.
* Records dates of insemination of hens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combinations of following duties concerned with raising poultry for eggs and meat. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes chicks from shipping cartons and places them in brooder houses.
* Cleans and fills feeders and water containers.
* Sprays poultry houses with disinfectants and vaccines.
* Inspects poultry for diseases and removes weak, ill, and dead poultry from flock.
* Collects eggs from trap nests, releases hens from nests, and records number of eggs laid by each hen.
* Packs eggs in cases or cartons; selects, weighs, and crates fryers and pullets; and records totals packed or crated on shipping or storage document.
* Maintains feeding and breeding reports.
* Monitors feed, water, illumination, and ventilation systems; and cleans, adjusts, lubricates, and replaces systems parts, using handtools.
* May cut off tips of beaks.
* 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.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who castrates cockerels to prevent development of sexual characteristics. Respnsibilities include:
* Ascertains that cockerels have not been fed or watered for specified period of time.
* Binds legs and wings or pinions birds with weights and makes incision between cockerel's last two ribs or beneath and behind wings, using surgical knife or heated knife that cauterizes cut.
* Removes testicles, using forceps and heated knife or heated forceps.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who vaccinates poultry for diseases, such as pox and bronchitis, by placing vaccine in drinking water, dusting air with vaccine powder, injecting vaccine in eye, leg, vent, wing web, or nostril of bird, using medicine dropper or hypodermic needle.
* May be designated according to poultry vaccinated as Chicken Vaccinator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grades baby chicks according to appearance and separates healthy from deformed or diseased chicks. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines baby chicks for curled toes, blindness, misshaped beaks, discolored downs, and abdominal rigidity.
* Examines chicks for symptoms of diseases, such as bronchitis and navel infection.
* Segregates healthy from diseased or deformed chicks.
* Places diseased chicks in incinerator.
* May press beak of chicks against hot wire to remove tip of beak.
* May pack chicks in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grades baby chicks according to appearance and separates healthy from deformed or diseased chicks. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines baby chicks for curled toes, blindness, misshaped beaks, discolored downs, and abdominal rigidity.
* Examines chicks for symptoms of diseases, such as bronchitis and navel infection.
* Segregates healthy from diseased or deformed chicks.
* Places diseased chicks in incinerator.
* May press beak of chicks against hot wire to remove tip of beak.
* May pack chicks in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines chick genitalia to determine their sex. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns back skin fold of external cloacal opening or inserts illuminating viewer into cloaca to observe genitals.
* Places chicks into boxes according to sex.
* May mark content data on boxes of segregated chicks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties on poultry farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Catches chickens and places them in crates and poultry houses.
* Sprays disinfectants or vaccines on chickens or in poultry houses.
* Spreads wood shavings over floor, using shovel.
* Cleans droppings and waste from floor, using broom and shovel, backhoe, or manure-cleaning machine.
* Dumps sacks of feed on conveyors and in feeders in brood houses.
* Fills water containers.
* Repairs farm buildings, fences, and shipping crates, using handtools.
* Lengthens and shortens ropes to adjust level of feed cans and water troughs.
* Moves equipment, using wheelbarrow, truck, and cart; or carries equipment from one area to another.
* Shovels manure onto truck.
* May stack and move crated eggs and poultry.
* May drive truck to move and deliver materials.
* 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.
Industry:Professional careers
