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About incubators
The poultry and eggs that nourish our body as part of a regular diet are sourced from chicks that are hatched in incubators.
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What's an incubator?
Incubators are designed to hatch eggs by heating them and keeping them at the right temperature and humidity.
Incubators help the hatching of eggs at a hatchery. The equipment mimics how hens brood their eggs and control their temperature in a natural environment such that the eggs can be hatched under stably controlled conditions.
Steps to Hatching
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Arrival of the fertile eggs from farms.
Transfer the trolley.
Transfer the trolley.
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Set the eggs into the setters.
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Be sure to uniformity of temperature / humidity.
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The eggs are transferred from the setters after the stay of 18 days there.
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For last 3 days, set the eggs into the hatcher.
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For 21 days the chicks are hatched from the eggs at the incubator.
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Products
Information is provided below on IP’s large-scale incubator systems - over 4,000 units of which have been sold around the world and that are by far the top-selling products in the category in Japan along with IP’s freezer and chiller systems that offer superb operability and energy efficiency.