Development of automatic solar egg incubator to increase the productivity of super native chicken breeds

Abstract

Super chicken is one type of chicken that began to be developed to get better meat with a faster harvest. Super native chicken seedlings can be obtained from broiler broodstocks with males from native chickens. In this paper, an automatic egg incubator is proposed to increase the productivity of super native chicken seedlings developed in Nagari Salareh Aia. This egg incubator can hold 200 chicken eggs with a heater using 8 pieces of 5 watt incandescent lamps. This tool is also equipped with a thermostat for automatic temperature regulation and a motor for moving the egg rack. Due to the low reliability of the electricity network in this area, the egg incubator is supplied with a 300 wp solar panel equipped with a 200 Ah battery to maintain electrical power continuity. The experimental results show that this egg incubator has worked well as expected.