- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who attends sheep flock grazing on range. Respnsibilities include:
* Herds sheep and rounds up strays using trained dogs.
* Beds down sheep near evening campsite.
* Guards flock from predatory animals and from eating poisonous plants.
* Drenches sheep.
* May assist in lambing, docking, and shearing.
* May feed sheep supplementary feed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects fleece for dungy locks and badly discolored areas.
* Segregates fleece in separate piles according to cleanliness of wool, preparatory to bundling or bagging.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in raising poultry, collecting eggs, crating fryers, and maintaining equipment and facilities on poultry farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with farm manager to ascertain production requirements and to discuss condition of equipment and status of supplies.
* Assigns workers to duties, such as collecting and candling eggs, feeding and vaccinating poultry, crating and shipping fryers, and cleaning and fumigating chicken houses.
* Directs maintenance and repair of facilities and equipment, such as chicken houses, automatic feeders, and layer nests.
* Trains new workers.
* Participates in work activities to expedite work load.
* Prepares worker attendance, egg production, feed consumption, and poultry mortality reports.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to type of farm as Supervisor, Brooder Farm; Supervisor, Egg-Producing Farm; Supervisor, Fryer Farm; Supervisor, Pullet Farm; Supervisor, Turkey Farm.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in receiving and preparing eggs for incubation; incubating eggs; grading, preparing, and shipping chicks in poultry hatchery. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with hatchery manager to discuss equipment and supply needs, production and research requirements, and work schedules.
* Assigns workers to duties, such as egg candling, sorting and traying, incubating eggs, and grading and debeaking chicks.
* Monitors thermometers, gauges, and chart recorders to detect equipment malfunctions and to verify compliance with incubator temperature and ventilation standards.
* Adjusts controls to maintain specified incubating conditions.
* Periodically inspects eggs in incubator trays to ascertain hatching progress, and orders removal of chicks.
* Observes packing of chicks to verify adherence to customer's orders and shipping instructions.
* Prepares production reports, and requisitions equipment, materials, and supplies.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to type of hatchery as Supervisor, Chicken Hatchery; Supervisor, Turkey Hatchery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises canaries. Respnsibilities include:
* Places males with females to induce mating.
* Examines birds for disease and administers prescribed treatments.
* Maintains genetic and health records.
* Segregates them according to sex, color, health and vitality, and selects birds for mating to improve strain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises poultry and fowl to improve strain and develop show stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and pairs birds for breeding or breeds birds by artificial insemination.
* Incubates eggs to induce hatching.
* Feeds and waters poultry.
* Cleans and disinfects poultry houses, cages, and nests.
* Places vaccines in drinking water, injects vaccines into poultry, or dusts air with vaccine powder to vaccinate poultry against diseases.
* Maintains growth, feed, and production records.
* Arranges with buyers for sale of pedigreed eggs, chicks, and birds.
* May hire and supervise workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises poultry and fowl to improve strain and develop show stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and pairs birds for breeding or breeds birds by artificial insemination.
* Incubates eggs to induce hatching.
* Feeds and waters poultry.
* Cleans and disinfects poultry houses, cages, and nests.
* Places vaccines in drinking water, injects vaccines into poultry, or dusts air with vaccine powder to vaccinate poultry against diseases.
* Maintains growth, feed, and production records.
* Arranges with buyers for sale of pedigreed eggs, chicks, and birds.
* May hire and supervise workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises poultry to produce eggs and meat. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and purchases poultry stock.
* Feeds and waters poultry.
* Cleans and disinfects poultry houses, cages, and nests.
* Places vaccines in drinking water, injects vaccines into poultry, or dusts air with vaccine powder to vaccinate poultry against diseases.
* Inspects and disposes of or segregates infected poultry.
* Collects, inspects, and packs eggs and selects and crates pullets and fryers for shipment.
* Maintains growth, feed, and production records.
* Arranges with wholesalers for sale of poultry and eggs.
* May hire and supervise workers.
* May incubate fertile eggs.
* May be designated according to kind of poultry raised as Duck Farmer; Poultry Farmer, Egg; Poultry Farmer, Meat; Turkey Farmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects farms for compliance with contract and cooperative agreement standards and advises farmers regarding development programs to aid in producing quality poultry products. Respnsibilities include:
* Tours farms to inspect facilities and equipment for adequacy, sanitation and efficiency of operations.
* Examines chickens for evidence of disease and growth rate (according to weight and age) to determine effectiveness of medication and feeding programs.
* Recommends changes in facilities, equipment, and medication to improve production, based on knowledge of poultry farming, hatchery operations and processing.
* Informs farmers of new procedures and techniques, government regulations and company and association production standards to enable them to upgrade farms and meet requirements.
* Recommends laboratory testing of diseased chickens, feeds, and supplements or gathers samples and takes them to plant laboratory for analysis.
* Reports findings of farm conditions, laboratory tests, recommendations and farmers' reactions to keep superior apprised of farmers' efforts to furnish quality products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests blood of poultry to ascertain presence of pullorum disease. Respnsibilities include:
* Pricks vein in bird's wing, using needle.
* Collects blood on wire loop and drops blood into pullorum reactor.
* Examines blood for specks that indicate presence of pullorum disease.
* Removes diseased birds from flock.
Industry:Professional careers
