6122-Poultry producers

Tasks include

• (a) monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities
• growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry
• 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
• mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers
• vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection, or dusting of air
• collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale delivery to market
• determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination, and hatching of eggs
• renting or investing in and maintaining and cleaning farm buildings, machinery, equipment, and structures
• slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market
• storing and carrying out some processing of produce
• arranging the sale, purchase and transportation stock, produce and supplies
• training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors.