Poultry Caretaker

Job Details:
This role is a member of the production team at Barn Farm. There are 9 people in the team working on a shift pattern of six days on and two days off. The role works closely with the Team Lead and reports to the Facility Manager.

About the Job

The production team is responsible for ensuring the premium breeding stock are well maintained, ensuring a good standard of high quality eggs for hatching purposes. You will be responsible for managing the health and welfare of a large number of birds in your care. You will ensure that they are fed, watered and in a clean and healthy environment. You will be responsible to the collection of high quality hatching eggs on a daily basis.

Tasks and Responsibilities
- To proactively maintain poultry to a high standard through:

- Ensuring that stock has ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigor.
- Ensuring that stock has an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area
- Ensuring that stock are free from pain, injury or disease by ensuring preventative measures or rapid diagnosis and treatment.
- Ensuring that stock is provided sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the own kind.
- Ensuring that conditions and treatment avoid mental suffering to the stock.
- To observe all hygiene rules, this includes personal hygiene, hand washing, boot dipping/changing and the wearing of all protective clothing.
- To strictly adhere to all bio-security rules.
- To ensure that floor eggs are kept to a minimum by training birds to use the nest boxes.
- To collect and record egg collections neatly and accurately.
- To ensure food is weighed accurately.
- Maintain house hygiene, dusting, light fitment cleaning, sweeping up, friable litter and clean bootdips.
- To ensure nest boxes are kept clean.
- Maintain accurate record keeping - house temperature, mortality, egg collections.
- Keep the farm clean and tidy.
- Adhere to all Farm Health and Safety rules and procedures.

Any other reasonable requests by the Farm Manager

We offer:
Annual equivalent salary of £31,900 increasing to £32,500 on completion of a 6 month probationary period

Company Pension

Employee Discount Platform

Attendance Bonus

Christmas Gifts

"Company: Cobb"

Relocation Assistance Eligible:
No

Work Shift:
6-2 Shift (United Kingdom)

Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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