Development of automatic chicken feeder using Arduino Uno

Abstract

Nowadays, chicken poultry industry is an important industry for sustainable food supply in our country. Several innovation and invention have been developed to improve the healthiness of chicken in coop that lead to possibly high production of chicken meat and eggs. Consequently, the development of an automatic chicken feeding machine can be very useful to the growth of the poultry industry. This machine can replace the worker for feeding the chicken thus overcome the labour problems in the industry and introduce a semi-automatic process in the poultry industry. The feeding machine for chicken is using an Arduino Uno board as its main controller. In this machine, it has two main parts, first, an Arduino to control servomotor from storage to food container, and the second part is an Arduino to control the temperature sensor for the freshness of the chicken food. This helps to improve the environment in the coop while reducing labor cost, saving food and chicken feeding on time, control the temperature sensor for the freshness of the chicken food and avoid contaminated food from chicken faeces and insects.