Poultry Sorter And Hatcher
Cackle Hatchery LLC
📍 Lebanon, MO · Laclede County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26209-130462
- 📞 Phone: +1 (417) 838-2880
- ✉️ Email: jeff@cacklehatchery.com
Employer instructions
Applicants, Workforce Agency Personnel, Walk-Ins, Gate Hires, etc. may:
Call for an interview during Monday-Friday from 11am-6pm Central Time.
Contact Person: Alex Santos (417) 532-4581
Employer Email: alex@cacklehatchery.com
Telephone interviews may be conducted during normal business hours as stated above.
✉️ Application email template in English
Replace what is in brackets [ ] with your details. If the employer asked for another way to apply, follow their instructions.
Subject: Application for Poultry Sorter And Hatcher (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26209-130462
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Under the direction of management or the Lead Sorter and Hatcher, the Poultry Sorter and Hatcher will perform the following duties:
Perform skilled agricultural labor involving the accurate identification, sorting, and quality grading of day-old poultry, including chicks and poults. Workers will be required to learn and apply breed characteristics for more than 230 breeds and varieties of poultry, including chickens, turkeys, guineas, peafowl, ducks, and geese. Duties must be completed in accordance with internal quality standards and applicable American Poultry Association standards, including culling or separating birds that do not meet required quality thresholds. Workers must maintain a high level of accuracy, speed, and attention to detail to ensure that only properly sorted, healthy, vigorous, and quality-graded birds are prepared for shipment to customers. Workers must follow all biosecurity, sanitation, and animal welfare protocols to help maintain flock health and must promptly report any health, quality, or safety concerns to a supervisor. Workers may also assist with related hatchery duties during downtime, including basic chick handling, moving trays, maintaining clean work areas, and performing light cleaning tasks.
Additionally, workers will care for eggs and baby poultry, which includes egg traying—placing eggs into specially designed trays with individual compartments to keep them secure for transportation, packaging, incubation, or placement in holding racks—following specific instructions on which eggs to set and carefully removing eggs from boxes for proper placement.
Breed sorting involves organizing eggs according to specific breeds and ensuring accurate placement in incubation machines. Prevent mixing breeds that may appear similar when hatched and to maintain breed labels with the eggs in the machine for clear identification and tracking. Transferring includes removing trays from incubators and placing them into hatcher baskets, positioning the baskets in designated hatching machines for the next phase of the hatching process. Counting baby poultry involves carefully extracting poultry from hatchers when ready and performing accurate counting and boxing based on specific counts per corner:
- 26 chicks per corner, 30 bantam chicks per corner, 13 ducks per corner, 8 geese per corner, 20 turkeys per corner, and 26 Guineas per corner.
Cleaning machines and hatchery equipment involves using a power washer to thoroughly clean and maintain the equipment, ensuring a hygienic and efficient work environment.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | Not required |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb Drug test Background check |
Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. Must be able to count. Minimal writing skill in native language. Basic English is not mandatory but is preferred.
Post-employment drug tests are paid for by employer when applicable. The employer reserves the right to conduct a background check post-hire at the employers expense IF the employer deems it necessary.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 9:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Biweekly |
| Pay details | $19.25 per hour for H-2A workers. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Lebanon, Mo) |
| Housing | Employer-Provided House - 4 bed; 3 bath - Total capacity: 6 |
| Meals | The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries and/or other incidentals. If free and convenient kitchen facilities become unavailable for any reason, the employer will provide three (3) meals a day for which it will charge individual workers, by payroll deduction, no more than the daily permitted amount as provided in 20 CFR 655.173, which was $16.78 as of April 7, 2026, and which may be increased during the period of this employment. |
| Daily transportation | Employer will provide daily transportation between housing provided or secured by the employer and the employer's place of employment at no cost to the worker. Please see Work Term 9 of 12 and Addendum C for a more detailed Daily Transportation Plan. |
| Travel to the job | Employer will either arrange for inbound and outbound transportation via a charter bus service for the worker, or if the worker prefers to arrange their own transportation, Employer will reimburse the worker at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved as well as for the related daily subsistence costs while the worker is traveling. Please see Work Term 1 of 12 for more detailed Inbound/Outbound Transportation arrangements. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security and Federal Taxes, and State Taxes. If any advances are given to workers, they will be deducted from their checks. Any willful destruction of property will also be deducted. |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26209-130462 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products (45-2041.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Farmer Law PC |
| Posted | Aug 28, 2026 |