Diseño y construcción de un prototipo de incubación artificial de huevos, con control automático de temperatura y humedad para la Avícola Ganazhapa, en la Parroquia Taquil de la Ciudad de Loja.

Abstract

The present research is carried out to develop an artificial incubation system for poultry eggs with an emphasis on the hatching of hen’s eggs, by programming in Arduino. The equipment has a control panel with two liquid crystal displays and configuration panels based on electronics pushbuttons and rotatory analog potentiometers, for each section indicated. A 250-watt air heating nickel achieves the internal temperature, while humidity is obtained by the forced vaporization of water, which is achieved by a submerged heating nickel from 700-watts to 110 volts of alterning current. With the DS18B20 and DHT22 sensors, the prototype was evaluated by tests with the system in full operation covering a range of temperature measure between 35.5 and 50°C. In addition relative humidity from 25 to 100% with resolutions of 0.1°C and 0.1% RH, respectively. It is concluded that the user has the possibility setting up the number days for being incubated like the control of rotation from eggs; through, an menu configurable by rotatory potentiometer, it placed right and panel left control menu, which a control is governed by electronic pushbuttons. The user can program and observe real time values of the variables that govern process like specially temperature, relative humidity and days elapsed since the placement of eggs until the hatching of chicks. Before using the incubation system, it is recomended to preaheat the incubation chamber to ensure that the system is correctly fitted to the needs of the process.