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ANCA Foods —Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 4930
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ANCA Foods —Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 4930
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Junior Farm Manager

ANCA Foods -
Stutterheim, Eastern Cape 4930

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Job Details

Full-time
5 days ago

Full Job Description

A poultry farm in Stutterheim Eastern Cape is seeking to add a new junior farm manager to its team. We are looking for an individual who is willing to learn and grow with our growing company.

MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE

EDUCATIONAL

Grade 12

Bachelor of Agriculture specializing in Poultry and Poultry Production

JOB RELATED EXPERIENCE

Experience working in agriculture (livestock)
Experience working with Broiler chickens
Professional verbal and written communication skills
Basic Xhosa and Afrikaans

EXPERIENCE

4-5 years experience in the poultry farming industry
2-3 years experience managing a team

DUTIES

Ensuring the temperature in each chicken house is at the correct level by performing numerous spot checks daily.
Ensure that the house attendants have fed the birds correctly and that the chicken’s drinking water is of good quality.
Monitor the level of the feed tanks, order when necessary and facilitate the receiving of feed to ensure the quality of the feed is not compromised.
Send feed samples to the laboratories if necessary.
Take 1kg feed samples of each load of feed and store in a safe dry place for future reference if necessary.
Ensure that the water quality is correct by taking random samples at least once a cycle and sending them to the laboratories for testing.
Ensure that the water pressure is correct in relation to the chickens’ age and that the water drinking systems are all in good operating order.
Ensure that any water problems are solved quickly to avoid mortalities.
Monitoring the reservoirs and water pipe-line daily to ensure that the water level is satisfactory.
Collect blood samples from random chickens and send over to the laboratories to check for diseases.

Perform a post-mortem on random chickens to ensure that there are no diseases and that they have taken to the vaccine properly by checking the size of the bursa.
Perform the vaccination by following the correct procedures and ensuring that all chickens are covered or receive the vaccine.
Perform 7-day weights on random batches of birds to ensure that they are growing properly, record the data and send to the farm office and identify why they may not be reaching their weight targets and take corrective action where necessary.
Assess the mortalities daily to identify any possible problems in order to be able to take corrective action
count and record mortalities daily and send information to the farm office and keep on hand for use in chicken house.
Check the gas levels and place the order for more gas when necessary.
Monitor the gas usage to keep the costs down.
Follow bio-security protocol at all times by disinfecting vehicles, taking showers and never visiting a site with younger chickens after having visited older chickens.
Perform day-to-day administration duties and ensure that all necessary information is handed over to the farm office.
keep water-usage logs and mortality charts up-to-date and readily available in each chicken house
Identify any need for repairs, gather quotes and monitor any repairs done and ensure the invoices are sent to the admin offices for payment.
Ensure that during the catching process, the catching team are handling the live birds

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person

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