A professional who raises poultry to produce eggs and meat. Respnsibilities include:

• Selects and purchases poultry stock.
• Feeds and waters poultry.
• Cleans and disinfects poultry houses, cages, and nests.
• Places vaccines in drinking water, injects vaccines into poultry, or dusts air with vaccine powder to vaccinate poultry against diseases.
• Inspects and disposes of or segregates infected poultry.
• Collects, inspects, and packs eggs and selects and crates pullets and fryers for shipment.
• Maintains growth, feed, and production records.
• Arranges with wholesalers for sale of poultry and eggs.
• May hire and supervise workers.
• May incubate fertile eggs.
• May be designated according to kind of poultry raised as Duck Farmer; Poultry Farmer, Egg; Poultry Farmer, Meat; Turkey Farmer.