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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Egg Receiving

• Ensure timely and safe receiving of eggs at the hatchery

• Ensure proper receiving, inspection, grading and sorting of hatching eggs and recording according to the grade of eggs

• Make standards for settable eggs and follow up

• Timely communicate with the breeding farm and finance if there is difference between delivery note and eggs received.

Egg Storage

• Ensure appropriate room temperature and humidity for eggs based on storage duration

• Ensure all egg refrigerators and air conditioners are well maintained always counting and balancing.

• Setting, Transfer, and Hatching

• Ensure second point of Quality control on setting eggs

• Ensure oldest eggs are set first (first in first out)

• Count and record the number of eggs set to incubator and the remaining and reconcile.

• Communicate with and deliver table eggs and crack eggs for sale

• Ensure proper pre-warming of eggs from cold store

• Ensure efficient, fast, smooth and timely egg transfer and candling

• Ensure proper selection and grading of DOCs

• Ensure proper disposal of hatchery waste

• Ensure all layer’s males are dead before they leave the farm for disposal

• Ensure proper and timely cleaning of equipment after hatch and transfer.

• Monitor targets for setting temperature, humidity, CO2/ventilation, and turning

• Monitor dry and wet bulb thermometers and compare them with screen and calibrator

• Ensure all wicks in the wet bulb thermometers are clean

• Improve hatchery environment cleanliness

• Make priority of assignments by discussing with line manager

• Ensure cleanliness and orderliness of hatchery and surroundings

• Ensure proper reporting of DOCs as finished goods and tracking of consumables/equipment from store

• Keep records of all eggs coming to hatchery, going to store and incubators and calculate if there is any difference in a regular way

• Monitor shift program for hatchery attendants and vaccinations

• Ensure a report of weekly (from Sunday to Saturday) egg stock that is received from

• Breeding eggs in cold stores, the discarded eggs which are table, crack & broken and report on time.

• Keep recording of daily DOC no DOC wastages

• Proper filing of hatchery SOP records,

• Check the expiry date of vaccines while receiving.

• Make sure that the vaccine with short shelf life has to be used on time.

• Count and record the vaccine used and reconcile after vaccination

• Make sure the vaccine storage is safe and to recorded each hour interval

• Make sure that the level of nitrogen is standard and follow up and Order for procurement before it reaches the minimum level.

• Make sure that distilled water, blue die and other vaccine related items are available for a minimum of one month consumption.