Farm Worker

Job description

DeWitt’s Game Farm is a gamebird operation producing Bobwhite Quail, Chukar Partridge, and Ringneck Pheasants. The farm raises game birds from egg to mature adult and takes them to market. Employment is temporary and seasonal, beginning January and ending August each year. This period represents the busiest and most labor-intensive phase of the farm’s production cycle due to due to egg production, chick hatching, flock care, and facility maintenance activities.

Workers will perform a variety of farm labor tasks related to the care and production of gamebirds, including tend to laying flocks and newly hatched chicks, Collect, wash, and rack eggs; transfer eggs to incubators and hatchers. Count and handle chicks; clean and sanitize hatch baskets, trays, and equipment. Feed, water, and provide proper care and disease control for birds of all ages. Apply blinders to pheasants (approximately 150,000 birds during the season). Catch, handle, and load gamebirds for sale and transport. Process, skin, clean, and package gamebirds while maintaining sanitary conditions.
Clean and prepare barns, pens, feeders, and waterers between flocks. Perform farm maintenance including: Repairing and fabricating pens, boxes, and other enclosures. Cleaning, disinfecting, and preparing facilities. Mowing, weed-eating, hand-pulling weeds, tilling, planting, and setting feeders.
Perform maintenance on farm equipment, vehicles, and tools. Work will include Intensive cleaning, disinfection, and pen preparation between flocks.

Workers Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and follow all farm rules and disease control procedures to protect bird health

Special Requirements

Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer.

Employer reserves the right to offer Raises and/or bonuses to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company's sole discretion, based on individual factors including production, work performance, skill, and tenure.

Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds worker's performance during the trial period to be unacceptable. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.

The employer may discipline the worker, including brief suspension of work activities/employment for a set period determined by the supervisor or termination of employment.