This vacancy has been closed.

Closing Date: 29 March 2024
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Assistant Farmer - Broilers  Rustenburg  Magaliesburg
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Agric Northern Region is looking for 4x Assistant Farmers for Commissiesdrift  and Magaliesburg sites  to assist in managing the Broiler operations, resources and manpower of a site thereby ensuring the optimal number of the right quality birds at the right time and at the lowest cost.  

 Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum Grade 12; Tertiary qualification will be an advantage
  • Physically fit with no allergies to bird feathers and dust 

Required Experience:

  • 3 years’ experience in the Poultry environment with 1 year experience/exposure in a supervisory capacity 

Required Knowledge and Skills:

  • Knowledge:
    • Understand basic poultry nutrition, growth, anatomy and reproduction
    • Farm operations and processes
    • Ability to recognize ventilation, brooding, feeding and water requirements of the birds and make the correct adjustments
    • Operation of farm equipment
  • Skills:
    • Verbal and written communication
    • Interpersonal 
    • Numeracy
    • Problem solving
    • Decision making
    • Stockman ship
Key Responsibilities;
  • House Preparation prior to placement in order to create ideal conditions for bird production.
  • Chick Placement – co –ordinate and monitor staff, liaises with the hatchery, chick placing foremen,
  • Post placement of chicks (Brooding conditions) – Evaluation of chick quality, recording of vent temperatures, temperature setting,
  • Growing conditions – Daily monitoring of the bird performance which entails feed intake, water recordings, temp and humidity recordings, mortality recordings
  • Ventilation management – Adjust ventilation static pressure to achieve minimum and maximum bird requirement.
  • Water Management - Water sampling prior to placement, flushing of the water lines three times in a week, sanitation of house water reticulation, daily water pressure setting and nipple heights
  • Feed management – Receiving and Recording of feed deliveries relative to feed program; daily bin stock counts; management of feed heights; adjustment of feeder levels according to bird’s size; monitoring of feed quality(% of fine feed); sampling of feed when the truck arrives.
  • Outsource activities – Preparation of the house environment prior to catching commencing; all documentation relative to catching need to check accuracy with the broiler planner; good communication and planning with the catching team and logistics to minimize any holding time.
  • Biosecurity and Farm sanitation – Maintaining an effective biosecurity program by practicing good hygiene, vaccination and disease prevention.
  • Bird Health – Daily monitoring and activity of birds, and sending of post mortems to the laboratory as per VCD;
  • Staff management – Keep and update daily registers, mdwt’s, disciplinary records, training records; review meetings
  • Record Keeping – Keep the documentation files updated that is KFC, health and safety files; feed recording; house chart records; rodent control, mortality records,


 

Closing Date: 29 March 2024