Developing a Generic Decision Support System for Poultry Feeding

Poultry breeding of birds such as chickens, ducks, and turkeys, provide humans mainly with meat and eggs. It represents a great share of investment in many countries. Feeding is one of the factors that play an essential role in poultry industry. Moreover, feeding represents a major direct cost in poultry industry. Therefore, it is generally vital to deliver the best animal diet at the minimum cost, to gain more profit. However, mixing feed ingredients turns out to be more troublesome, since several issues got the opportunity to be involved all at the same time. In this paper, the linear programming algorithm is applied and used in a web application to help farmers and producers to find the minimum cost of feeding, considering many factors including: the purpose of breeding, poultry type, growth stage, nutritional requirements and available feedstuffs