College of Technology

DESIGN PROJECT
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
AN EGG IN CUBATOR
NKO DALINTON ABA DAVID DESPINE NGAH
CT18A141 CT15A035

Introduction The flow chart below illustrates the different procedures involved in
the system.
In the world of today, we are faced with the challenge of hatching
healthy day old chicks. The ultimate gold of this project is to increase the rate
of hatching and to produce healthy chicks or birds. In the incubation process,
temperature is the most important factor for egg hatching rate and the growth
performance of the offspring phenotype. Thus, the impact it has in the society
is that it increase meat production to the rapid growing population and also
increase the supply of a day old chick in the market. Again this process
ensure a safe hatch of large number of eggs which can’t be done by a mother
hen safely.

Methods
To build the system we designed the egg incubator in a small box
form and a tray of about 28 fertilize eggs is designed to put inside the
box while the various components such as relay which is use to switch
on the various electrical component, temperature humidity sensor, ac
heater, fan, I2C, real time clock, LCD, synchronous motor and
transformer are connected in the box. We later then taste the incubator,
turn on the ac heat and monitor the temperature and humidity for a day.
These factors alongside time and vital statistics are keep in track since
the eggs takes 21days to hatch. We later then rotate 45 degrees left per
turn three times daily for 18 days. The main steps involve to achieve this
system include;
 Writing a line of codes which will enable the Arduino to show the
various birds and the temperature of the various eggs you want to use
on the LCD.
 Mounting component which are part of the circuit such as heater,
temperature humidity sensor, relay, transformer,i2c, Push buttons on
a perforated board using lead and soldering iron.
Results
In summary the project was aimed to increase the number of day old
checks to ensure a safe hatch of large number of eggs and also to
increase meat production to the society.
Conclusions & future works
In conclusion, this study has been able to develop and incubator that
can accommodate large numbers of eggs at a time. The aim and
objectives of this project has been achieved. An automatic egg
incubator and hatchery has been develop and could be used to
incubate various types of eggs. It is expected that future studies
should focus on the establishing a solar powered system or inclusion
of Dc heater to avoid use of AC.