This document describes a student's research project to design and implement a computerized information management system for a poultry farm. It discusses the aims of the study, which are to design a database application to easily maintain and access records for a poultry farm. The document reviews relevant literature and describes the research methodology, hardware and software requirements, system implementation, and output design. The conclusion summarizes that the system is intended to make record keeping more efficient and accessible for poultry farmers.

1. POULTRY FARMING INFORMATION SYSTEM
BY
CHIBUZOR GRANT IKECHUKWU
MOUAU/CME/16/95603
A RESEACH PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF
ENGINEERING DEGREE (B.ENG) IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, UMUDIKE.
JANUARY, 2023

2. INTRODUCTION
 A poultry information management system is a database
software system that can be used to record needed or relevant
information pertaining a poultry farm.
 Poultry production is a very important source of livelihoods for
most rural communities because it provides ready cash for
emergency needs, supplies the fast-growing human population
with high quality protein, contributes significantly to food
security, poverty alleviation and ecologically sound
management of natural resources. Information can effectively
improve the production and management efficiency in the
poultry farming process. In this study, a management system
was designed to realize the acquisition, transmission, storage,
and management of information, and upload the data to the
database to increase the flexibility and scalability of the
system.

3. AIMS OF STUDY
 To design and implement a computerized
information management system for a poultry farm.
 To design and implement a database application
that can be used to maintain and provide
information about the livestock.
 To making management of poultry farm record
easier and accessible.

4. LITERATURE REVIEW
 The running and maintaining a poultry farm for optimum
gain is labor intensive so much, so the important aspect
of information giving and management in farms are
neglected. As a result, records of stocks are not properly
stored, valuable information often times get lost due to
time and poor handling, where they are, it is error prone
and cannot ensure that information on stock remains up
to date thereby affecting turnover in most cases.
 Over the past decade, educators have promoted record-
keeping by developing hand recording systems and
software. Yet, farm record-keeping is still a neglected
farm activity (Doye et al., 2003).

5. TYPES OF FARM RECORDS
There are three basic types of farm records:
 i. Resources inventories: As a farmer, you use resources such as
land, labor, machinery, breeding stock management and financial
capital, so you need a record of that.
 ii. Production accounts of livestock and crop operations: The
production account of livestock such as poultry birds and crop shows
how this resource base is combined with other inputs to yield physical
output. Consequently, production records, such as the relationship of
feed to weight gain, or land to total production, are most critical to your
farm’s profits.
 iii. Income and expenses(Financial) records: Financial records relate
primarily to money or the financial interactions of the farm. Product
sales, operating expenses, equipment purchases, creditors, debtors,
inventories, depreciation records, loan balances and price information
are all examples of financial records.

6. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND
SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Research methodology is the set of the complete guideline
that includes the models of tools to carry out activities in
the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The
usage of methodology is to ensure all the processes,
techniques, method and approaches of the system are
well defined. It is a very important phase of development
as it will guide the researchers through all the
development period.

7. SPIRAL MODEL
Spiral model is one of the most important Software Development
Life Cycle models, which provides support for Risk Handling.
In its diagrammatic representation, it looks like a spiral with
many loops. The exact number of loops of the spiral is
unknown and can vary from project to project. Each loop of
the spiral is called a Phase of the software development
process.

8. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
 Software Requirement Specifications
 The following are required for the development of Inventory Management
software:
 Operating system (Windows XP/7/8.1/10)
 Web browsers
 HTML5 and Bootstrap for the front end (programming language)
 MySQL for the back end (Database).

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
 PC with 300 megahertz.
 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommendation
 1.5gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space.
 Super VGA (800 X 600) or higher – resolution video adapter and monitor
 CD- ROM or DVD Drive
 Output Devices : Monitor, Printer, etc

9. SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
 The purpose of System Implementation can be
summarized as follows: making the new system
available to a prepared set of users (the deployment),
and positioning on-going support and maintenance of
the system within the Performing Organization (the
transition).
 At a finer level of detail, deploying the system consists
of executing all steps necessary to educate the User on
the use of the new system, placing the newly developed
system into production, confirming that all data required
at the start of operations is available and accurate, and
validating that business functions that interact with the
system.

10. OUTPUT DESIGN
The design of output is the most important task of any system. During
output design, developers identify the type of outputs needed, and
consider the necessary output controls and prototype report layouts.

12. SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATION AND
Summary
 In Summary, the design and implementation of a poultry farming
information system is a platform designed to make it easier for poultry
farmer to instantly keep records of their poultry farm. The poultry farmer
can create data, update, view and search the availability of previous
information stored, This system will provide poultry farmer the platform to
keeping records in a more efficient method and also stress free thereby
making the poultry farm record keeping more accessible when needed in
turn creating more and bountiful production for the farmer.
Recommendation
 This system is recommended to poultry farmer to enable him/her to be
able to manage the poultry farm information in a more stress freeway,
the following are the objectives to be achieved:
 i. To design and implement a computerized information management
system for a poultry farm other include
 ii. To design and implement a database application that can be used to
maintain and provide information about the livestock.

13. Thanks and God
bless