Design of an Intelligent Poultry Feed and Water Dispensing System Using Fuzzy Logic Control Technique

Abstract

Prohibitive cost of production and laborious human involvement in poultry farms in the tropics could l ead to low profit yield and low return on investment. Unfortun ately, over-involvement of humans in the feeding sy stem of poultry could lead to disease outbreak, undue fatig ue and malnutrition of birds. These flaws in the po or feeding system of birds prompted this research work by deve loping an intelligent fuzzy logic based system that could mimic the roles of the poultry attendants in delive ring water and feed dispensing for birds at specifi ed time intervals. Water and feed level in the trough would be sensed by the designed system and dispense inte lligently with respect to the variations in water and feed le vel as birds consume the feed and water. This syste m reduces workload of the poultry attendants, increases cost benefits and generates better return on investment in a deep litter poultry farming system