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

Abstract

Manual method of feeding birds in the tropics makes poultry farming to be unnecessarily laborious and prohibitively costly. Over-involvement of humans in the feeding system of poultry leads to disease outbreak, stressful manual labour and malnutrition. These challenges instigate this research work by developing an intelligent fuzzy logic based system that mimics the roles of the poultry attendants in carrying out water dispensing at specified time intervals. The designed system has the zbilit to sense the level of the water in the trough and intelligently dispense water e»tr !w! decline in the trough in accordance with the variations in water level as birds consume the water. This system reduces workload of the poultry attendants, increases cost benefits and generates better return on investment in a deep litter poultry farming system.