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Poultry Farmer
OFO Code: 612201
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 612201
- Occupation
- Poultry Farmer
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6122 · Poultry Producers
Official description
Poultry producers plan, organize and perform farming operations to breed and raise chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks and other poultry to produce meat, eggs and breeding stock for sale or delivery to wholesale buyers, marketing organizations or at markets. Workers who produce a combination of domestic livestock and other animals such as poultry, insects and non-domesticated animals should be classified according to their predominant activity. Farmers not involved in co-operatives are also classified under this unit group.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Poultry Farm Production Supervisor, Poultry Farm Foreman
- Renting or investing in and maintaining and cleaning farm buildings, machinery, equipment, and structures
- Determining sex of chicks and facilitating breeding, artificial insemination, and hatching of eggs
- Slaughtering and dressing poultry for sale or delivery to market
- Monitoring and examining poultry to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical condition, such as rate of weight gain, and removing weak, ill and dead poultry from flock
- Collecting and storing eggs and packaging them for sale delivery to market
- Growing and purchasing feed and other supplies needed to maintain appropriate nutritional levels and condition of poultry
- Arranging the sale, purchase and transportation stock, produce and supplies
- Monitoring market activity, planning and coordinating production accordingly, maintaining and evaluating records of farming activities
- Training and supervising workers in poultry production procedures, maintenance duties, and health and safety precautions, and hiring and discharging workers and contractors
- Vaccinating poultry via drinking water, injection, or dusting of air
- Storing and carrying out some processing of produce
- Mixing feed and feed additives and filling feed and water containers
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.