A Real-Time Automated System for Monitoring Individual Feed Intake and Body Weight of Group-Housed Young Chickens

The feeding behavior of poultry at a young age is very likely to determine the final growth chicken, and can also reflect status health status. It great significance for breeding. This paper describes development testing real-time automated system single passage monitoring individual feed intake body weight poultry. integrates an automatic mechanism, RFID reading module, scale, drop weighting scale. uses analog circuits digital filtering improve weighing accuracy, directly measures amount falling ground using high-precision Through sequential opening closing sliding door, group-housed chickens are separated so that ones fed individually. As result experiment, we learned chicken grows rate about 8.88 g/day, food conversion (FCR) 4.4, which proves this matches accurately monitor change chickens.