Hatcheryman

**Job Advert Summary**:
Rainbow Chicken is a passion led business. Do you want to be part of a growing and enthusiastic team working towards a common ambition. The KZN Hatchery team is on the hunt for a Hatcheryman to join the Hatchery team reporting directly to the Hatchery Foreman.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Grade 12.
- 1 year’s relevant laying farm experience.
- Good verbal communication, numerical and interpersonal skills.
- Hatchery experience would be an added advantage.
- Ability to cope well while under pressure.
- Physically able to work.
- Adherence to Bio-Security and other rules.
- Willingness to work overtime.
- A self-starter.
- Team player.
- Willing to work a continuous operation.
- Good attention for detail.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Mortality - to strive for the lowest possible mortality % by means of egg quality and selection
- Adhere to chick grading procedures thereby ensuring quality chicks and low mortality
- Adhering to procedures thereby ensuring high levels of hygiene
- Adhere to egg grading procedures to ensure quality eggs are provided for setting.
- Transfer of eggs
- Cleaning of setters
- Doing hatchery checks
- Hatchery Fumigation
- Carry out 10 day candling and breakout analysis
- Cleaning and other assigned manual tasks
- All hatchery related tasks allocated from time to time by Management
- Record keeping - of temperatures throughout hatchery, temperature readings of incubators and equipment in plant room, egg receiving, egg grading, candling, transfer, chick grading, culls, hatch breakouts.
- Receiving of eggs from farms
- Grading of eggs from farms