DEVELOPING A LOCAL SEMI-MECHANICAL INCUBATOR FOR MINIMUM PRODUCTION COST

Abd El-Mottaleb, A. F.

doi:10.21608/mjae.2010.105754

DEVELOPING A LOCAL SEMI-MECHANICAL INCUBATOR FOR MINIMUM PRODUCTION COST

Document Type : Original Article

Author

A. F. Abd El-Mottaleb

Senior Rese. , Agric . Eng . Ins ., Dokki , Giza , Egypt .

10.21608/mjae.2010.105754

Abstract

A local semi-mechanical incubator was developed to hatch some kinds of poultry eggs with the purpose of decreasing egg losses and increasing incubation efficiency.
A comparative study was conducted on the performance of the incubator before and after development. Performance was investigated as a function of change in temperature, relative humidity , number of turns and kind of egg in terms of hatching ratio , loss ratio and hatching cost .
Experimental results revealed that hatching ratio and hatching cost were in the optimum range with the use the developed incubator under the following conditions :

Temperature of about 37.5 C , relative humidity of about 55% and number of turns of 12 times per day .

Improvements lead to of increasing of safety factors and professional integrity for laborer and detecting any shortcoming in components of the incubator electricity circuit

Main Subjects

Agricultural Constructions Engineering

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