Introduction
The Animal Health Technicians will support the Veterinarian in implementing daily and weekly animal welfare checks, disease prevention measures, and compliance with health management practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Recognise disease manifestation in poultry.
- Evaluate husbandry and biosecurity practices aimed at preventing disease in poultry.
- Evaluate the storage and administration of vaccines to poultry.
- Sampling of poultry for bacterial and viral diseases.
- Routine biosecurity and welfare audits on production sites.
- Routine lesion scoring and post mortems.
- Evaluate feed and water quality.
- Provide reports on farm visit findings.
- Administration of export registered and HPAI vaccinated facilities.
- Collect routine surveillance samples on HPAI vaccinated farms (weekly and monthly) if relevant.
Minimum Requirements