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Senior Resident Flock Veterinarian
About this role
Senior Resident Flock Veterinarian at Taghini Foods, Oyo. Provides field-level technical leadership across breeder, hatchery and commercial broiler operations and acts as the bridge between Junior Veterinarians and the Lead Veterinarian - Poultry Operations.
What you would do
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership and supervision to Junior Veterinarians across breeder, hatchery and commercial broiler operations.
- Translate veterinary strategy and standards into field practice and verify execution.
- Mentor and develop Junior Veterinarians in clinical reasoning, flock-health management and professional practice.
- Monitor flock health metrics and vaccination responses, and investigate deviations against defined performance benchmarks.
- Lead disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, differential diagnoses and corrective interventions.
- Design and oversee sampling strategies, laboratory investigations and interpretation of diagnostic results.
What they are asking for
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or equivalent recognised veterinary qualification.
- Current registration and licence to practise with the Veterinary Council of Nigeria (VCN).
- Evidence of National Youth Service Corps discharge, exemption or exclusion.
- Minimum five years' relevant post-qualification experience, preferably in intensive commercial poultry production.
- Strong practical experience in commercial broiler and breeder operations, with knowledge of poultry medicine, vaccination, biosecurity and disease investigation.
- Postgraduate training in poultry health, epidemiology, veterinary public health, food safety or related discipline (advantageous).
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