Control and Monitoring System for Livestock Feeding Time via Smartphone

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Eik ◽  
◽  
F. Yakub ◽  
M. A. Ilham ◽  
K. Aina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Storage ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Feeding Schedule ◽  
Feed System ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Food Container ◽  
Livestock Feeding ◽  
The Right ◽  
Control And Monitoring System

The livestock farming sector usually require a lot of manpower and may face problems such as adhering the designated feeding schedule. Therefore, this paper intends to aid in this sector by bringing the smart feeder system. The main objective of this paper is to control and monitor livestock feeding time using application via smartphones. This is to ensure that the livestock are fed according to the right schedule. This paper also highlighted the advantage of the smart feeder system where it can be used to save up money and energy that can be obtained by having less labor workers. This is because of the hopper storage that can accommodate the food up to three days. The importance of this system is its ability to automate the feeding system for the livestock. The smart feed system designed is different from the existing livestock feeding machines that are available anywhere in the market due to the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) in the system. The usage of IoT allows farmers to set the feeding schedule automatically by using an application via smartphone. Besides, users will also be informed on the weight of food in the storage and food container through the application. This will allow the users to monitor the food storage and only come to refill it when it is empty. Farmers can also observe whether the livestock have eaten or not by getting updated on the level of food of the food storage using an ultrasonic sensor.

scholarly journals Behavioral and stress responses to feeding time in pregnant sows under limit-fed regime

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayford Manu ◽  
Suhyup Lee ◽  
Mike C Keyes ◽  
Jim Cairns ◽  
Samuel K Baidoo
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Area Under The Curve ◽  
Total Activity ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Experimental Unit ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Feeding Schedule ◽  
Activity Count ◽  
Anticipatory Activity ◽  
Total P

Abstract We investigated the effect of feeding time on behavior and stress responses in pregnant sows under isocaloric conditions. Twenty-four sows were balanced for parity and randomly assigned to 1 of 3 feeding times. Corn-soybean meal-based diet was fed once at: 0730 (Control, T1), 1130 (T2), and 1530 h (T3). On average, sows received 7062 kcal ME/d from 2.20 kg of diet formulated to contain SID Lys/ME of 1.71 g/Mcal. The study was conducted for 28 days (21 d acclimation to the feeding regime and 7 days data collection). Saliva samples were collected every 2 hours for 12 hr in stalls on day 52 of pregnancy. Behavior data were collected 24 hr for 7 d from day 53 of gestating by affixing a remote insights ear tag to each sow. Each sow had 120,960 data points categorized into: "Active", "Feed" or "Dormant". Due to housing constraint, all sows were housed in individual stalls in the same barn presenting a potential limitation of the study. Data were analyzed using PROC MIXED and GLIMMIX procedures of SAS 9.4 for cortisol and behavior data, respectively. Sow was the experimental unit. The area under the curve (AUC) is quantitative evaluation of response as threshold varies over all possible values. A 12-hr cortisol total area under the curve (AUC) for sows fed once daily at 1130 h was reduced relative to sow group fed at 1530 h (P = 0.046) but similar compared with the control sows (P = 0. 323). The control sows (0730 h) had reduced total (P < 0.001) and feeding (P = 0.001) activity AUCs relative to sows on 1130 but did not differ compared with sows on 1530 h feeding schedules (P > 0.100). Sows on 1130 h feeding schedule had greater feed anticipatory activity (FAA), 24-hr total activity count, total (P < 0.001) and feeding (P < 0.001) activity AUC compared with sows fed daily at 1530 h. In conclusion, feeding pregnant sows earlier in the morning (0730 h) appears to minimize sows’ behavior but similar cortisol response. Sows on 1130 h feeding schedule had greater activities but reduced cortisol concentration, suggesting that elevated sow activity might not necessarily indicate activation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

scholarly journals PEMBERI MAKAN OTOMATIS PADA KUCING MENGGUNAKAN RASPBERRY PI BERBASIS ANDROID

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-308
Author(s):  
Uci Rahmalisa ◽  
Mardeni Mardeni ◽  
Rialtra Helmi ◽  
Arie Linarta
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Feeding Schedule ◽  
Servo Motor ◽  
Food Container ◽  
Python Language ◽  
Food Stock ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Automatic Scheduling ◽  
Predetermined Time

Keep a pet at home takes time and effort. For people who have very dense flurry of activity certainly keep a pet such as a cat would be very hard to do. A Raspberry Pi microcontroller is designed for the purpose of automatic feeding so it is easy to use. The workings of the tool are automatic scheduling using an Android-based smartphone so that the servo motor will open and close so that the cat food is taken out into the food container that has been provided. By using an Android-based smartphone, the feeding schedule can be set by the hour for each funnel. Equipped with a buzzer as a reminder of cat owners if the available food stock is low and must be immediately refilled. The programming language used is Python language. Based on testing and performance of "Automatic Cat Feeding Using Raspberry Pi Android Based" has shown results in accordance with the design that is able to open and close the funnel that fills the cat food container with a servo motor automatically by setting a predetermined time.

scholarly journals Study on nutrient supply in relation to feeding system of buffalo in Chitwan, Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Shah ◽  
Yusuke Tabata ◽  
Hajime Kumagai ◽  
Yoshiaki Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Supply ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Nutrient Contents ◽  
Feed Resources ◽  
Crop Land ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mean

Livestock farming in Nepal, especially buffalo farming alone contributes a major share in livelihoods of farmers. Stall feeding of buffalo is common in Chitwan with occasional grazing. This raises questions about status of nutrients supplied to maintain productivity as feed resources varied in forest and crop land according to the season. A study was carried out in Chitwan from April 2015 to March 2016 to find out the status of nutrient supply in relation to the feeding system of buffalo. Total fifteen farms were selected from three villages, the amount of feedstuff fed to the animals was measured every month and the nutrient contents of the feed were analyzed. The mean concentrations of DM, CP, TDN, Ca and P were 641g/kg, 75.0 g/kg, 462 g/kg, 4.9 g/kg and 4.2 g/kg. A significant difference of CP contents among the villages was observed (72.0 g/kg, 70.7 g/kg and 81.2 g/kg (P<0.01), and the highest content of CP, TDN, Ca and P were found in July (P<0.05)). The study showed variation in nutrient supplied, irrespective of the status and condition of buffalo in the farms which need to be considered to maintain productivity of the animals.

An Automated Feeding System for Soft Shell Crab

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Niswar ◽  
Zahir Zainuddin ◽  
Yushinta Fujaya ◽  
Zagita Marna Putra
Keyword(s):  
Slow Growth ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Dirty Water ◽  
Alert Message ◽  
Soft Shell ◽  
Feeding Process ◽  
Food Wastage

<p>Soft shell crab farming has been practiced in south-east Asian countries such as Indonesia. Soft shell crabs are harvested when they have just molted to prevent their shells from being hardened. An issue arises when feeding the crabs. Farmers need to feed the crabs 5% food of their body weight. However, farmers sometimes provide incorrect amounts of food to the crabs. If farmers feed the crab exceeding the required amounts of food, it causes food wastage and dirty water in the crabs’ cage. On the other hand, less amounts of food causes slow growth and molting of the crabs. In this study, we developed an automated feeding system for properly feeding of soft-shell crabs. The automated feeding system schedules the feeding time and controls the portion of food using a microcontroller. We also developed a web-based monitoring system to monitor and generate alert message to farmers to make sure that feeding process runs properly.</p>

scholarly journals Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India: Ethics, politics, ecologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110454
Author(s):  
Krithika Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This paper investigates social science literatures and public discourse on animal-based food systems in India to examine how social, ecological, and animal justice concerns are addressed (or not). The Indian livestock sector is estimated to be the largest in the world, with significant implications for local and planetary natures and the individual animals that compose the sector. The intensification of livestock production in India has unfolded alongside serious, often violent, sectarian conflicts around meat and cow protection. In this paper, I discuss how scholarly and public debates have been centred on the cultural roots of vegetarianism, the right-wing contours of political bans on cow slaughter, beef, and eggs, while issues relating to the more-than-human impacts of animal agriculture have remained marginal. The paper brings these analyses together with an examination of the intensification of animal agriculture in the country, and the consequent animal, ecological, and social vulnerabilities. Through this multi-optic account of animalbased food systems in India, I argue that the single-optic focus on cows, consumption (of meat) and related identity politics has produced serious lacunae in scholarship and public debate in the form of the overlooking of the multiple, intersecting impacts of commercial livestock farming on social, ecological, and animal wellbeing. In the backdrop of global worry about animal agriculture, the paper inspects the role of the social sciences in creating possibilities for considered engagement with the plural justice implications of India’s rapidly intensifying livestock landscapes.

scholarly journals An automated feeding system for the African killifish reveals effects of dietary restriction on lifespan and allows scalable assessment of associative learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McKay ◽  
Chi-Kuo Hu ◽  
Sharon Chen ◽  
Claire Nicole Bedbrook ◽  
Mike Thielvoldt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Dietary Restriction ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Vertebrate Model

AbstractThe African turquoise killifish is an exciting new vertebrate model for aging studies. A significant challenge for any model organism is control over its diet in space and time. To address this challenge, we created an automated and networked fish feeding system. Our automated feeder is designed to be open-source, easily transferable, and built from widely available components. Compared to manual feeding, our automated system is highly precise and flexible. As a proof-of-concept for the feeding schedule flexibility of these automated feeders, we define a favorable regimen for growth and fertility for the African killifish and a dietary restriction regimen where both feeding time and quantity are reduced. We show that this dietary restriction regimen extends lifespan in males. Moreover, combining our automated feeding system with a video camera, we establish an associative learning assay for the killifish. This learning assay provides an integrative measure of cognitive decline during aging. The ability to precisely control food delivery in the killifish opens new areas to assess lifespan and cognitive behavior dynamics and to screen for dietary interventions and drugs in a high-throughput manner previously impossible with traditional vertebrate model organisms.

scholarly journals Knowledge and practice of nursing mother`s regarding complementary feeding

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 060-071
Author(s):  
Rexona Parvin ◽  
Pinki Mondal ◽  
China Rani Mittra ◽  
Sathi Dastider
Keyword(s):  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Feeding Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Nursing Mother ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nursing Mothers ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The Right

Complementary feeding is the systemic process of introduction of semisolid or solid food in infant at the right time in addition to mother’s milk in order to provide needed nutrition to the baby. A cross sectional study was conducted from January to December, 2020 to assess the level of knowledge and practice of nursing mothers regarding complementary feeding. Total 177 nursing mother were selected purposively and interviewed with a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire. Face to face interview was conducted to collect data. P-value less than 0.05 were set as statistically significant. The knowledge and practice score were categorized into good (≥70%), satisfactory (50 to 70%), and poor (≤50%). Out of 177 respondents, majority 109(61.6%) had satisfactory knowledge regarding complementary feeding, 33(18.6%) had good knowledge and rest of them 35(19.8%) had poor knowledge regarding complementary feeding among the nursing mother. On the other hand 62.7% respondents had poor Practices, 24.9% had satisfactory practices and 12.4% had good practices regarding complementary feeding among the nursing mothers. There was highly significant association between knowledge and practice of complementary feeding (p <.000). Nursing mother’s knowledge regarding complementary feeding time was inadequate and practices were inappropriate. . It is the responsibility of health professionals to pass on the current information about proper infant feeding to mothers/care takers for promoting the healthy complementary feeding of the breastfeed child.

scholarly journals Access to Finance, Indigenous Technology and Food Security in Nigeria: Case Study of Ondo Central Senatorial District

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Akinwumi Sharimakin ◽  
James Temitope Dada
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Logit Estimation ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Formal Finance ◽  
The Impact

AbstractResearch purpose: Food security remains a major component of economic development. Many developing nations are facing challenges of food insecurity, which had contributed to starvation and other societal problems. With adequate food intake, human healthy living is assured. This study investigates the impact of access to formal finance and indigenous technology and knowledge on food security in Ondo central senatorial district in Ondo state, Nigeria.Methodology: In total, 216 farmers were sampled, and data were collected through a well-structured questionnaire and focus interviews. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and logit estimation technique.Findings: Descriptive statistics show that there are more male farmers (61.1%) than female counterparts (38.9%), with most of the farmers (42.7%) in their ages 56 years and above and with 51.9% having primary education. Majority of the farmers (65.7%) engage in arable crop farming, while 15.2 and 19.1% engage in cash crop and livestock farming, respectively. The econometric model reveals that age, income, gender, education, marital status, religion, family size, assets owned and distance are major determinants of a farmer’s decision on account ownership, savings and borrowing. Indigenous knowledge of soil fertility, disease-resistant and quickly-growing crops, food storage, local weather, water management, pest and diseases control are significant determinants of food security in Ondo central senatorial district. Likewise, account ownership, savings and borrowing from formal financial institutions are significant determinants of food security.Practical implications: It is, therefore, important that efforts to ease access to formal financial services and improve indigenous technology to serve as complement to modern farming techniques to achieve food security be made a priority by government and private institutions.

Performance of indigenous and exotic×indigenous sheep breeds fed different diets in spring and the efficiency of feeding system in crop–livestock farming

2014 ◽  
Vol 153 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. ATES ◽  
G. KELES ◽  
F. INAL ◽  
A. GUNES ◽  
B. DHEHIBI
Keyword(s):  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Late Spring ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Feed Conversion ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Spring Period ◽  
Sheep Production

SUMMARYGenetic variation in feed efficiency may have a significant impact on sheep production in integrated crop livestock farming systems in dry areas, where the shortage and poor quality of feed is widespread. Thus, the present study was carried out to investigate the effects of sheep genotype and feed source on liveweight gain, feed conversion efficiency and dry matter (DM) intake in feedlot lambs finished on diets based on low-cost forages or a high-cost concentrated feed as a means of assessing the efficiency of this feeding system. Early weaned lambs of the purebred fat-tailed Akkaraman breed were compared with synthetic Anatolian Merino (0·80 German Mutton Merino×0·20 Native Akkaraman) breed. The lambs were kept in individual pens for 8 weeks and fed four diets: daily harvested forages of triticale (T), Hungarian vetch (HV), a triticale-Hungarian vetch mixture (T+HV), and a concentrate-based feed (CF). Lamb liveweight gain (LWG) was monitored during the early (18 April–16 May) and late (17 May–13 June) spring periods. Diet×period and diet×breed interactions were detected in LWG of the lambs. Lambs from both genotypes on the concentrate-based diet had higher liveweight gains, DM intakes and better feed conversion ratios compared with lambs finished on the forage-based diets. The LWG of lambs offered triticale forage decreased from 177 g/head/day in the early spring to 95 g/head/day in the late spring period, as plant maturity increased. Liveweight gains did not change for the other forage rations during the same period. The LWG of Akkaraman lambs were similar for both the early (189 g/head/day) and the late (183 g/head/day) spring periods, whereas Anatolian Merino lambs gained 41 g/head/day less LW and had 3·8 higher feed conversion rate for the late spring period compared with the early spring period. The present study showed that fat-tailed Akkaraman lambs were better able to utilize forages with low nutritive value compared to Anatolian Merino lambs, and may be better suited to semi-arid areas, where crop and livestock are highly integrated in the farming system.

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