Open AccessDevelopment of automatic solar egg incubator to increase the productivity of super native chicken breeds
Author(s) -
Muldi Yuhendri,
Risfendra Risfendra,
Mukhlidi Muskhir,
Hambali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1594/1/012033
Subject(s) - incubator , incandescent light bulb , broiler , thermostat , chicken manure , poultry farming , biology , zoology , electrical engineering , engineering , ecology , manure , microbiology and biotechnology
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.