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Unit 4: Manage artificial incubation - Coggle Diagram
Unit 4: Manage artificial incubation
Operate egg incubators
Set
Incubation chamber parameters
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Air quality and flow
• Egg inclination
Fumigate eggs
Transfer hatching eggs into setting trays with broad ends facing up following recommended
hatching egg handling regulations
• Sanitize their hands or wear gloves whenever handling eggs
• Be free from communicable diseases
• Handle eggs with care
• Avoid wetting the eggs
Load setting trays with hatching eggs onto setting trolleys
Drive/push loaded trolleys into incubation chamber and lock in for incubation
Manage egg hatching
Remove eggs from the incubation chamber on the 18th day post setting
Candle eggs to remove non fertile ones and those with dead embryos
Transfer fertile eggs with developing embryos in a flat positions into hatching baskets
Transfer loaded hatching baskets into hatching chamber / machine
Monitor hatching process from the 20th day onwards for about 33 hours
Pull hatching baskets with chicks, un-hatched eggs and hatching debris from the hatching chamber / machine on the 21st day
Evaluate hatched chicks for health and freedom from deformities
Assess the sex of hatched chicks
Remove hatched, dry and healthy chicks from the hatching baskets and transferred to chick cartons / crates
Manage hatchery biosecurity measures
Organize
biosecurity structures and equipment
• Placing disinfectants in foot baths and spray jet tanks
• Placing fumigants in fumigation chamber tanks
Post standard operational procedures at strategic points in the hatchery unit
Adhere to occupational safety and health procedures
Environmental protection measures are observed
Environment protection regulations
guidelines designed and enforced
• National Environmental Management Authority
• Ministry of Health
Clean hatchery buildings and equipment, disinfect and fumigate
Dispose
hatchery waste
into waste pits after passing through maceration tanks or rendering units
• Fluff
• Contaminated eggs
• Hatched egg shell debris
• Pipped chicks (dead in shell)
• Unhatched eggs
• Dead chicks
• Meconium droppings
Dispose
hatchery waste
into waste pits after passing through maceration tanks or rendering units
• Fluff
• Contaminated eggs
• Hatched egg shell debris
• Pipped chicks (dead in shell)
• Unhatched eggs
• Dead chicks
• Meconium droppings
Maintain hatchery records
Data is entered and monitored daily, weekly or monthly as per the chart
Keep poultry hatchery records