Skills & competences

Description

Poultry producers plan, organize and perform farming operations to breed and raise chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and other poultry to produce meat, eggs and breeding stock for sale or delivery to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets.
Tasks include -
(a) monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, and maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities;
(b) growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry;
(c) monitoring and examining poultry to detect illness, injury or disease and to check physical condition such as rate of weight gain, and removing weak, ill and dead poultry from flock;
(d) mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers;
(e) vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection or dusting of air;
(f) collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale or delivery to market;
(g) determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination and hatching of eggs;
(h) renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, farm buildings, machinery, equipment and structures;
(i) slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market;
(j) storing and carrying out some processing of produce;
(k) arranging the sale, purchase and transportation of stock, produce and supplies;
(l) training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Poultry breeder
- Poultry farmer
- Poultry tender
Note
Workers who produce a combination of domestic livestock and other animals such as poultry, insects and non-domesticated animals should be classified according to their predominant activity.