x2 Assistant Farmer - Laying - Rainbow Chicken

Role Purpose:

• To assist the Farmer/Site Supervisor in managing the operations, resources and manpower of a site thereby ensuring the optimal number of the right quality birds at the right time and at the lowest cost. To take full responsibility of the site when the Farmer /Site Supervisor is not on site.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Grade 12; Tertiary qualification will be an advantage
• Physically fit with no allergies to bird feathers and dust
• Driving License required

Required Experience:

• 3 years experience in the Poultry environment with an experience/exposure in a Laying supervisory capacity

Key Responsibilities:
House Preparation

• Prior to placement in order to create ideal conditions for bird production.

Pullet Placement

• Co ordinate and monitor staff, liases with the rearing

Laying conditions

• Daily monitoring of the bird performance which entails feed intake, water recordings, egg weight, bird weighing, temp and humidity recordings, mortality recordings

Ventilation management

• Adjust ventilation static pressure to achieve minimum and maximum bird requirement.

Water management

• Water sampling prior to placement, flushing of the water lines three times in a week, sanitation of house water reticulation, daily water pressure setting and nipple heights

Feed management

• Receiving and Recording of feed deliveries relative to feed programme; daily bin stock counts; management of feed heights; adjustment of feeder levels according to birds size; monitoring of feed quality(% of fine feed); sampling of feed when the truck arrives.

Hygiene and Biosecurity

• Adhere to the VCD and BOP procedures
• Ensure compliance to SHEQ and Risk Management
• Training of staff with regards to animal welfare, food safety, equipment within the operation and Bio-security procedures.
• Maintaining an effective biosecurity programme by practicing good hygiene, vaccination and disease prevention.

Bird Health

• Daily monitoring and activity of birds, and sending of post mortems to the laboratory as per VCD;

Record Keeping

• Keep the documentation files updated that is KFC, health and safety files; feed recording; house chart records; rodent control, mortality records,

Staff management

• Keep and update daily registers, mdwts, disciplinary records, training records; review meetings.

Maintenance

• Test equipment and the standby generator on a weekly basis to ensure reliability and good working order.
• Test the alarms in the morning and afternoon, on a daily basis to ensure good working order
• Maintain the farm grounds.

General Production

• Ensure the submission of samples to the laboratory (blood, water, dust, mortality and feed) as required
• Monitor and record environmental conditions of poultry houses practices to enable proactive management of potential animal health issues.
• Manage the vaccination process to ensure immunizations and vaccinations are done in time and according to the vaccination program, BOP and veterinary specifications.
• Ensure that effective rodent control measures are in place.

Carolina

Published Date: 17 June 2025
Closing Date: 30 June 2025