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poultry farmworker
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.
- Sõnaliik: noun
- Valdkond/domeen: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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(United States of America)