Temperature and humidity sensors are used to read temperature and humidity values inside the incubator respectively. These conditions: Ventilation, Temperature, Relative Humidity, regular positioning, and eggs turnings are kept at their optimal values to efficiently increase the hatchability rate. It is aimed at designing a low-cost smart incubator to ensure the maintenance of the optimum environmental conditions necessary for hatching eggs. This project investigates the design and implementation of an affordable, automated incubator for local poultry farmers. Although this has helped in large-scale incubation, incubators in the market are very expensive which makes Ghanaian poultry farmers find it difficult to purchase. Artificial means of solving this problem have brought about the invention of the incubator. Relying on natural means of hatching eggs to increase poultry production is inefficient thus the need for technologies that will aid in maximizing the yield. Because of this high demand, the problem necessitates efforts to maximize the yield of poultry production in the country. Poultry is one of the most consumed agricultural produce in Ghana. Novelty/Improvement: The study demonstrated that the microcontrollerbased egg incubator is commendable for small-scale poultry producers. Further, the Modified technology is cost-efficient than the manual, which indicates a lower cost per chicken and ducks egg incubation of Php 20.07 and Php 17.2. It also showed higher net income for the farmers. It also shows that duck eggs have the most number of hatching compared to chicken eggs. Findings: The study showed that the designed incubator’s hatching efficiency ranges from 80-93% and with an average of 86.5% with the number of hatched eggs was 56 (93%) duck eggs and 48 (80%) chicken eggs. The incubator designed in this study uses modern methods such as the automated controllable device, which maintains humidity & temperature and enables automatic tray switching The study has also discussed the hatching efficiency and hatching capacity a financial review between the previous egg incubator and the proposed microcontroller egg incubator has been done. The researchers gathered information on temperature, humidity, cost-efficiency, advantages and disadvantages of the existing incubators, and the farmers’ feedback before designing. Interviews with the farmers from the Northern Luzon Philippines also contributed to the design modification’s success. Methods: To meet the objectives, the researchers conducted several document analyses relative to the study to establish further the requirements needed to design a microcontroller-based incubator. Objectives: This study is geared towards the design modification of a costefficient automated egg incubator. The result of the test revealed the following average values- fertile eggs 95, infertile eggs 5, hatched eggs 85 and hatchability of 89.47% was achieved. 100 fresh, healthy, well developed and matured eggs were used to test the incubator. The trays were lifted through an angle of 40° either side of horizontal at every hour and lasted for four minutes. Turning of eggs was achieved with the use of tilting trays mechanism controlled by a programmed electric motor. Factors that were considered during the performance evaluation of the incubator were humidity, 55% and temperature, 37° C during the first 18 days and were maintained at 37.5 ☌ till hatching. The incubator has the hatching capacity of 100 eggs. The aim of this research was to produce a low cost user friendly modern incubator to increase the production of day old chicks for small and medium scale poultry farmers. The goal of our Incubation Learning Center is to help everyone from beginner to expert improve your success hatching eggs.This paper demonstrated the design, construction and performance evaluation of automated eggs incubator for poultry farmers. Hatching eggs can be a very rewarding OR very frustrating experience. We find that lots customers end up paying 2-3 times as much in shipping costs as they had to because they don't buy everything they need upfront and so they place several orders wasting time and money! Our Combo Kits take the most commonly needed accessories and put them into packages to fit almost any budget, saving you money & time. We've made shopping for egg incubators EASY with our Egg Incubator Combo Kits. Regardless of whether you are shopping for a chicken incubator, quail incubator, poultry incubator, or even a reptile incubator, we recommend starting with our Egg Incubator Buyers Guide. Our website has been designed to make shopping for egg incubators as easy as possible. We at the Incubator Warehouse know that shopping for egg incubators can be very confusing.
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