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This study quantifies labor cost savings from switching to automated feeding in a 10,000-bird broiler farm. Manual feeding requires two full-time workers for feed bag handling, transport, and daily distribution. Annual labor costs include wages (15/hour×8h/day×365days×2workers=87,600), plus benefits, recruitment, and training overhead (estimated 25% of wages, 21,900)andmanagementsupervision(5,000). Total manual feeding cost: $114,500.
Automated feeding uses a silo, auger system, and pan feeders. One part-time worker maintains the system and monitors feed levels (500 hours/year at 15=7,500). Maintenance, electricity, and depreciation add 3,000annually.Totalautomatedcost:10,500.
Result: It saves $104,000 in labor – related costs each year, a decrease of 91%. Even with a conservative estimate, achieving a 50% saving is easy. For an automated system costing $12,000, the payback period is less than two months.
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