A professional who performs any combination of following duties in poultry hatchery. Respnsibilities include:

• Places eggs in incubator trays, wads paper between eggs to secure them, and clips trays to incubator racks.
• Transfers trays from incubator to hatchery and removes paper wads from between eggs to make room for hatching chicks.
• Transfers hatched chicks from trays to chick boxes and counts out prescribed number of chicks to each box section.
• Supplies baby chicks to other workers for sexing, grading, and debeaking. May deliver cartons of chicks to designated farms or commercial growing establishments, using truck.