A Contrivance to Develop a Brooder for Eggs in Diminutive Scale for Domesticated Poultry

Abstract: An Egg brooder (incubation unit) was developed in Advance institute of Science and Technology at Maya Group of Colleges, Dehradun to demonstrate and evaluate the performance. The main focus of this research was to bring on a cost efficient interface for farmers to boost the outcome of poultry birds for small and marginal scale of farmers also involve in poultry production. The capacity of the incubation unit was kept 25 for trials and 6 trails were done from July, 2022 to November, 2022 with dependent variables viz. humidity and temperature. Humidity was maintained between 60% to & 70% .During the 1st week, temperature was controlled to 39.4ºC which was decreased and maintained to 38.9 ºC in 2nd and 3rd week. The eggs were turned gently by hands at 180 º side to side. In the trials the incubated eggs were seen fit enough to grow into healthy poultry birds, giving overall hatchability as 86.52%