How to become a poultry farm worker
Official title: Poultry farm worker
Also called: Artificial inseminator (poultry), Chicken farmer, Duck farmer, Egg producer (farm), Farmer (battery poultryman), Farmer (egg producer), Farmer (poultry hatcher and breeder), Goose farmer, Incubator operator, Poultry breeder, Poultry farm supervisor, Poultry farmer
Poultry farm worker performs farming operations to breed and raise poultry for eggs or meat. He/she specialises in raising poultry, such as fowls, ducks, geese and turkeys. He/she may also collect semen from roosters and fertilise hens to obtain hatching eggs.
Main tasks
- 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 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
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- 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