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Zainal H. C. Soh1, Mohd H. Ismail1, Firzana H. Syahrul A. C. Abdullah2
Otthaman1, Muhamad K. Safie1, Muhamad A. A. Faculty of Electrical Engineering2
Zukri1 Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia
Faculty of Electrical Engineering1 Shah Alam, Malaysia
Universiti Teknologi MARA bekabox181343@salam.uitm.edu.my
Penang, Malaysia
zainal872@ppinang.uitm.edu.my
Abstract—Nowadays, chicken poultry industry is an important themselves. Furthermore, the sufficient amount of the food
industry for sustainable food supply in our country. Several provided also cannot be determined accurately to avoids
innovation and invention have been developed to improve the wasting food. Lastly, breeders also find that it is difficult to
healthiness of chicken in coop that lead to possibly high manage their other daily business effectively because they
production of chicken meat and eggs. Consequently, the need to be around the coop every hour to monitor the poultry.
development of an automatic chicken feeding machine can be
very useful to the growth of the poultry industry. This machine Previously, breeder sowed the food on the ground and
can replace the worker for feeding the chicken thus overcome the cause the food being contaminated from faeces and insect. It
labour problems in the industry and introduce a semi-automatic can cause the chicken to eat food that is not nutritious and
process in the poultry industry. The feeding machine for chicken susceptible to germs and bacteria that possibly lead to a
is using an Arduino Uno board as its main controller. In this chicken with unhealthy comb, eye, beak, hackles, feet and
machine, it has two main parts, first, an Arduino to control spur. Furthermore, unhealthy chicken has no appetite and
servomotor from storage to food container, and the second part is causing chicken does not get sufficient nutrients and died. The
an Arduino to control the temperature sensor for the freshness of food should be places in a container that shield the food during
the chicken food. This helps to improve the environment in the non-feeding time and heated to maintained the food freshness
coop while reducing labor cost, saving food and chicken feeding and kill bacteria. On the other hand, surplus food that has been
on time, control the temperature sensor for the freshness of the
exposed to dirt and mixed with soil has caused variable losses
chicken food and avoid contaminated food from chicken faeces
due to supplying chicken that are not healthy and nutritious.
and insects.
Sufficient fixed amount of the grains required by chicken need
Keywords – automatic feeding machine, chicken, chicken food, to be determine and managed properly to avoid left-over food.
poultry industry. Although, the solution for monitoring and control the
chicken farm operation and environmental condition
I. INTRODUCTION available[2][3][4][5][6][7][8], but the existing are still lacking
Nowadays, farming and breeding are crucial and important of an autonomous chicken feeder system. Therefore, an
sector in agriculture industry. The number of Small and automatic chicken feeder system is proposed and developed to
Medium Enterprises (SME) involvement in poultry industry provide the food effectively and to control chickens feeding
has increases due to high demand in this healthy white meat time. This system provides an efficient solution for sufficient
food. Moreover, governments also encourage people to quantity of the food distribution, fixed feeding time and hassle
involve in SMEs as an alternative to increase their income and free automatic feeding to help breeders. User can set desired
at same time improving their economy status. The suitable time and save it to microcontroller’s memory. As the
size of chicken coop is important to ensure a profitable consequences, the feeder will feed the chicken automatically
encounter by SMEs that involve in the industry. The large- and on time even when they are away from home.
scale size of the chicken coop is needed to cater for more This paper presents an automatic chicken feeder system
number of chicken livestock. Commercially, usually people with a fixed feeding time, exact quantity of food distribution
allocate more than 5000 chickens in some big coops. This will and food container with controllable food freshness using a
require a lot of manpower to manually feed this number of microcontroller based system. The remainder of the paper is
chicken regularly and on time. Prior to modern technology and organized as follows. Section II describes automatic chicken
ICT era, people were used to the conventional method to feed feeder system development and design approach. Section III
chickens which is by filling containers with grains and food discussed the development result of the prototyped of
manually or mechanically[1]. The main problem by using this automatic chicken feeder. Finally, section IV draws our
method is to ensure continuous the food supply, be alert and conclusions and point out the ideas for future extension of this
conscious on the food balance in coop, all manually by work.
STORAGE
SERVO
LAMP
LCD
The goal of this project work is to feed the chicken on time
automatically where the machine is controlled by Arduino
UNO. The Arduino will activate the servo motor every 8 hours
TEMPERATURE
in 3 days since this machine will operate at the weekend only. SENSOR
It has been set up to rotate 90 degrees to open the valve for a
few seconds. Then the grains will fall to the chicken food
container. This servo motor will delay for a few second for the
grains to fall before it close back the valve. Figure 4 shown the
block diagram of grain load operation. In addition, the
Arduino also will be interfaces with the temperature sensor
where the sensor used to detect the grains temperature or
surrounding temperature inside the food tank. If the
temperature of the grains is lower than the set value, the
sensor will trigger the relay that control the lamp ON or OFF
to warm the remaining grains in the food tank to keep it fresh. Fig. 6. Actual Automatic Feeding Machine
So, the temperature sensors will active right before the amount
TABLE II. THE GRAINS PER CHICKEN NEED DAILY AND WEIGHT
OF CHICKEN THROUGHOUT WEEKLY PERIOD
Fig. 8. Temperature is less than 29◦C, Lamp bulb will Turn ON
WEEK GRAINS (g) WEIGHT OF
CHICKEN
1 13 30 to 120
2 25 310
3 34 500
4 40 1100
5 50 1300
6 60 1400
7 70 1600
8 80 1700