Automated Poultry Farm with Microcontroller based Parameter Monitoring System and Conveyor Mechanism

Poultry Farming is a potential developing segment in Indian animal husbandry business. Imbibing automation into traditional poultry farming methods provides the advantages of improving productivity, quality, and safety while avoiding wastage. Many farms face labour shortage and pollution issues due to the accumulation of manure. There is a practical difficulty in manually cleaning the manure for reducing pollution. Egg collection, as well as manure disposal, are the areas that are considered to be automated which is discussed in this paper. Bringing in automation to these areas can save a lot of time and labour cost. This will also improve the cleanliness inside the farm thereby reducing illness among the fowl. A combination of software and hardware systems can be used to make the labour-intensive jobs inside the farm into automated processes. The efficiency of the farm can be increased by keeping the farm environment in optimal conditions required for the growth of chickens. This paper proposes a model that monitors the environmental parameters such as temperature, level of ammonia, humidity etc. inside poultry farms and controls it by several methods to maintain an optimal environment. Natural incubation produces a smaller number of chicks due to variation in humidity and temperature. A solar-powered mechanized incubator system is also designed with egg turning mechanism and environmental parameter controls. The system thus focuses on increasing farm productivity with minimal human effort and to reduce pollution.