The technician's ethics: honesty about results, the bird first, the vet as a partner
A technician can know everything and do harm. All it takes is rounding off an FCR so that his flock looks good, letting a flock suffer from the heat because reducing the number "would lose the boss money", giving a product to a sick flock to avoid calling the vet, or recommending a piece of equipment because he gets a commission. None of these faults requires ignorance; all of them require a small arrangement with oneself. Ethics is not a chapter of morals: it is the set of rules that make it possible to rely on what a technician says and does, even when nobody is watching. This lesson sets them out, with eight real situations and an expert's answer.
12 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 15 — Expert adviser: project, audit and passing it on. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 14 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓State the five ethical rules of the poultry technician and explain why each protects the farmer, the bird and the technician himself
- ✓Recognise, in a field situation, the moment when the technician’s interest and the farmer’s part ways
- ✓Work with the local vet as a partner: what is his, what is ours, how we talk to each other
- ✓Say a disturbing result, written and dated, without rounding it off and without accusing