Animal Health Officer - 5 Posts at County Government of Turkana

Requirements and competencies for appointment

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines; Animal Health Management;
• Animal Production, Animal Production and Health Management, Environmental Health Sciences, Livestock Economics or Health Extension from a recognized institution.
• Be registered by the Kenya Veterinary Board; and
• Have a Certificate in computer applications from a recognized institution

Duties and responsibilities

• Overseeing construction and maintenance of farm structures;
• Giving advice on dip designing, siting and appraising construction;
• And inspection and verification of imports and export of consignments
• Training and advising on milking techniques and external parasite control techniques such as dipping, spraying and dusting
• Carrying out vaccination, closed castration, disbudding, docking, debeaking and hoof trimming; carrying out simple treatment of animals, participating in disease search, collecting and collating data and writing technical reports;
• Keeping records on animal breeding, animal health, milk production, dipping data, slaughter house daily kill, meat condemnation and movement permits;
• Maintaining dairy units;
• Participating in animal health field demonstrations and agricultural shows;
• Undertaking equipment sterilization, sample collection, packaging and dispatch;
• Inspecting livestock stock routes,
• Rearing experimental animals;
• Issuing of livestock movement permits
• Undertaking artificial insemination,
• Meat inspection and grading;
• And enforcing slaughterhouse hygiene, meat transport regulations and inspection of retail outlets of foods of animal origin dehorning, animal identification, deworming,