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U.S. Department of Labor
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