Poultry House Worker

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Job title : Poultry House Operator ( poultry house worker )

Job Location : Catskill, NY

Contract - 6+ Months

Hours per Day - 8

Hours per Week – 40

Shift/ Days – 6 am – 3 pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday - Schedule: Early morning start (40 hours/week) - will work weekends

Job Duties

The Poultry House Operator will be responsible for the following:

• Communicate regularly with the Farm Manager.
• Keep house and equipment clean and sanitary.
• Collect and sanitize eggs in order to provide clean SPF eggs for sale.
• Responsible for basic maintenance.
• Monitor flock for health issues and report concerns to Farm Manager.
• Perform blood draws weekly.
• Maintain biosecurity, and follow biosecurity regulations
• Monitor and maintain feeders, waterers, medicators, house temperatures, bird weights
• and condition.
• Assist in training new hires.
• Ensure the humane care of the birds during all phases of the life cycle.
• Perform bird sales as requested.

The following are Preferred Qualifications related to the Poultry House

Operator position, but are not required to be considered for this position:

• Previous experience working with animals
• Farm experience

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Poultry House Operators equipments and how often it is used and what it is used for.
? Showering in and out of buildings daily.
? Working in heat of 80-90 degrees F during hot summer days (no air-condition in buildings)
? No heavy equipment used in poultry houses.
? Using surgical scalpels to perform bleeds (Once a week)
? Lifting roughly 30lb flats of eggs. (Daily)
? Using pesticides for insect control (Once a week)

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $16.50 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Weekends

Contract Length:

• 5 - 6 months