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Advances in Egg Hatching Technologies

This document reviews previous work on recent improvements in chicken egg hatching technologies and fertility detection. It identifies that existing electric incubators rely on grid electricity and solar incubators have higher costs. It also discusses previous studies on manually controlled solar incubators and a hybrid electric and solar system designed for commercial use.

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Advances in Egg Hatching Technologies

This document reviews previous work on recent improvements in chicken egg hatching technologies and fertility detection. It identifies that existing electric incubators rely on grid electricity and solar incubators have higher costs. It also discusses previous studies on manually controlled solar incubators and a hybrid electric and solar system designed for commercial use.

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Literature Synthesis

This section reviews previous work on recent improvements in chicken egg hatching technologies

and fertility detection in general. To boost production numbers and profit, several efforts have been made to

improve hatching efficiency and egg fertility detection. Based on the literature analysis, the following

problem has been identified as a need for further exploration in this study.

Electric incubators are limited in their application since they rely on grid-supplied electricity

(Kalubarme et al., 2018 & Okpagu & Nwosu, 2016). Many studies have been conducted on the design,

construction, and testing of solar photovoltaic egg incubators. However, employing a photovoltaic panel for

heating results in a higher incubator cost (Osanyinpeju, 2018). In addition, the study of (Ahiaba et al., 2015)

devised a passively heated solar poultry egg incubator that uses the sun's passive energy to heat the

incubator. It has a bigger temperature fluctuation because it is exposed to direct sunshine.

The temperature and other incubation parameters are controlled either manually or by opening the

ventilation hole when the temperature rises above the appropriate threshold. The utilization of solar thermal

energy for incubation is introduced, and thermal energy storage is used to store energy for the night (Kanu

et al., 2016). However, temperature, humidity, and turning incubation factors were manually controlled by

opening and closing the hot air duct between the collector and the incubation chamber. This necessitates

the operator's continued presence.

Although a hybrid electric and solar heat assisted egg incubation system has a higher energy-

saving potential, it was designed for large-scale or commercial incubation, and it requires grid-supplied

electricity for partial heating, as well as control and monitoring of parameters during the incubation

process).

Eggs should be subjected to stringent quality control procedures. The egg candling analysis is the

first step in the quality control procedure. Egg candling is a non-destructive method of detecting defects in
eggs by shining light on them. In small and medium poultry plants, this technique is frequently done by

hand. Manual egg candling is prone to human error and can result in health issues for the worker.

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