Poultry farming is the raising of birds either domestically or commercially for primarily meat or eggs but also for feathers. Chickens, ducks and turkeys are the most raised birds with chickens being the most common raised birds. The chickens which are raised for eggs are called layer chickens, and the chickens which are raised for their meat production are called broiler chickens. Poultry farming business has numerous benefits. As a result many farmers prefer to invest in this business. People generally establish poultry farming for the purpose of producing eggs, meat and generating high revenue from these products. All over the world billions of chickens are being raised as a good source of food from their eggs and meat. Most poultry farming businesses face the challenges of managing the farm this is mostly because of the file system of keeping records and entry of transactions. Currently the poultry farm industry mainly uses the ledgers based system and manual entry for each transaction required, record of eggs, quantity of birds as well as sales and expense record is calculated on separate ledgers. Production percentage is calculated manually for every day production. Feed consumption per day or month is first written and them total is calculated. Sales and expense record as well as profit and loss calculations require a lot of time to go through.
The aim of this study was to develop an online poultry farming management system to help poultry farmers manage their farms easily.
To automate the manual means of recording poultry farming records.
To provide a system that can facilitate the update of poultry farming records.
To develop a system that will aid the presentation of reports pertaining the poultry farming.
