Overview
Rearing Assistant Farmer – Rainbow Chicken Jobs in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa at Trending Talent Solutions
Title: Rearing Assistant Farmer – Rainbow Chicken
Company: Trending Talent Solutions
Location: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Role Purpose:
- To assist in the monitoring of the day-to-day activities at the farm. To act as Farm Manager in the absence of Farm Manager.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum Grade 12; Tertiary qualification will be an advantage.
- Physically fit with no allergies to bird feathers and dust.
- Valid Code EB drivers license.
Required Experience:
- At least three years Breeder (Rearing and Laying) experience.
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
- Ability to calculate and allocate feed
- Operation of farm equipment
- Skills:
- Verbal and written communication
- Strong people management skills
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Passion for animals
- Proactive
- Good analytical skills
Key Responsibility
- House Preparation prior to placement in order to create ideal conditions for bird production.
- Chick Placement: co–ordinate and monitor staff, liaise 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 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 requirements.
- Water Management: water sampling prior to placement, flushing of the water lines three times 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 programme; 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 transfer commencing; good communication and planning with the transferring team and logistics to minimize any holding time.
- Biosecurity and farm sanitation: maintaining an effective biosecurity programme by practicing good hygiene, vaccination, and disease prevention. Drive AI prevention strategies.
- Bird Health – Daily monitoring and activity of birds, and sending of post mortems to the laboratory as per VCD.
- Record keeping: keep the documentation files updated, that is KFC, health and safety files; feed recording; house chart records; rodent control; mortality records.
- Manage the transition from rearing to laying phase.
- Staff management: keep and update daily registers, mdwt’s, disciplinary records, training records; review meetings.
Pietermaritzburg
Closing Date: 26 August 2026