A professional who grades baby chicks according to appearance and separates healthy from deformed or diseased chicks. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines baby chicks for curled toes, blindness, misshaped beaks, discolored downs, and abdominal rigidity.
• Examines chicks for symptoms of diseases, such as bronchitis and navel infection.
• Segregates healthy from diseased or deformed chicks.
• Places diseased chicks in incinerator.
• May press beak of chicks against hot wire to remove tip of beak.
• May pack chicks in cartons.