Overview
Farmer (Roodewal) – Rainbow Chicken Jobs in Rustenburg, North-West, South Africa at Trending Talent Solutions
Title: Farmer (Roodewal) – Rainbow Chicken
Company: Trending Talent Solutions
Location: Rustenburg, North-West, South Africa
Role Purpose:
Agric Northern Region is looking for a Farmer for the Rustenburg (Roodewal) site to manage the operations, resources and manpower of a site thereby ensuring an optimal number of the right quality birds at the right time and at the lowest cost.
Required Qualifications:
- A degree or diploma in Animal Production
- Valid Code EB drivers’ licence
Required Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in a similar environment, 2 to 3 of which should be in a supervisory capacity.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
Knowledge:
- Poultry production inclusive of breeder and broiler management
- Understand basic poultry nutrition, growth, anatomy, reproduction and biosecurity
- Agricultural and farm operations and processes
- Ability to recognize ventilation, brooding, feeding and water requirements of the birds and make the correct adjustments
- Operation of farm equipment
- Lighting programmes for optimal performance
- Calculation of feed requirements
- Ability to make feeding decisions to obtain target weight
- Troubleshooting to achieve targets and objectives
- Understand disease and biosecurity fundamentals as well as vaccination and immunity principles
- Labour relations legislation and procedures
- ISO and health, safety and environmental legislation
- National best practice standards
- Systems for SHERQ
- Should be fully computer literate in all MS Office and related software
Skills:
- Verbal and written communication
- Interpersonal
- Numeracy
- Negotiation
- Management
- Logical thinking
- Problem solving
- Analytical thinking
- Decision making
- Stockmanship
Key Responsibilities
- House Preparation prior to placement in order to create ideal conditions for bird production.
- Chick Placement – co –ordinate and monitor staff, liases 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 the 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 requirement.
- Water Management – Water sampling prior to placement, flushing of the water lines three times in a week, sanitation of house water reticulation, daily water pressure setting and nipple height.
- 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 catching commencing; all documentation relative to catching need to check accuracy with the broiler planner; good communication and planning with the catching 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.
- 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.
- Staff management – Keep and update daily registers, mdwt’s, disciplinary records, training records ; review meetings.
Rustenburg
Published Date: 07 August 2026
Closing Date: 20 August 2026
