Poultry breeders oversee the production and day-to-day care of poultry. They maintain the health and welfare of poultry.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities;
(b) Growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry;
(c) 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;
(d) Mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers;
(e) Vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection or dusting of air;
(f) Collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale or delivery to market;
(g) Determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination and hatching of eggs;
(h) Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, farm buildings, machinery, equipment and structures;
(i) Slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market;
(j) Storing and carrying out some processing of produce;
(k) Arranging the sale, purchase and transportation stock, produce and supplies;
(l) Training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors.