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.