Biological Inoculation I

Job Title : Biological Inoculation I

Location : Swiftwater, PA

Duration : 12 Months+ (Possibilities of Extension)

Responsibilities :

• The process starts with a delivery of eggs containing embryos to the egg dock.
• The carts of eggs are unloaded from the hatchery truck and placed into a warm room for holding.
• A sample of eggs are inspected for quality.
• Once the quality check is done, the carts are moved from the warm room into the Inoculation Load room.
• Trays of eggs are removed from the carts and placed onto a conveyer.
• The trays of eggs will pass through an inoculation machine where the eggs are inoculated.
• Trays of inoculated eggs are then placed onto incubation carts, 136 trays per cart.
• The carts are then moved, two people per cart, and placed into incubators.
• Throughout the process four to five trucks will deliver approximately 650,000 eggs per day to the egg dock.
• After incubation time has been met, the carts are then unloaded and moved to the next process.
• This process continues seven days a week until the end of the campaign.