DEVELOPING A LOCAL SEMI-MECHANICAL INCUBATOR FOR MINIMUM PRODUCTION COST | ||
| Misr Journal of Agricultural Engineering | ||
| Article 11, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2010, Pages 943-961 PDF (1020.62 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjae.2010.105754 | ||
| Author | ||
| A. F. Abd El-Mottaleb | ||
| Senior Rese. , Agric . Eng . Ins ., Dokki , Giza , Egypt . | ||
| 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 | ||
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