How to become a poultry producer

Official title: Poultry producers

Also called: Poultry breeder, Poultry farmer, Poultry tender

Poultry producers plan, organize and perform farming operations to breed and raise chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and other poultry to produce meat, eggs and breeding stock for sale or delivery to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets.

Main tasks

• Monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, and maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities
• Growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry
• 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
• Mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers
• Vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection or dusting of air
• Collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale or delivery to market
• Determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination and hatching of eggs
• Renting or investing in, and maintaining and cleaning, farm buildings, machinery, equipment and structures
• Slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market
• Storing and carrying out some processing of produce

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: HK$15,500 a month
• About 387,500 people in 2025, and about 403,200 projected by 2028. (+4.1%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Tree and shrub crop growers
• Animal producers not elsewhere classified
• Apiarists and sericulturists
• Livestock and dairy producers
• Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers
• Mixed crop growers

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Questions people ask

Do you need a degree to become a poultry producer?

Usually not. Only 6% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Will AI change the work of a poultry producer?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026