The performance evaluation of the photovoltaic (PV)
powered incubator was conducted. The incubator was initially
run empty without eggs. This was done so as to ensure that the
level of the operating micro elements- temperature and
relative humidity of the incubation chamber were right. The
incubator was then loaded with fertilized poultry eggs for a
period of twenty one days and replicated three times. The eggswere turned periodically and manually. This was to no
sticking of the egg yolks on the shell. Before loading the eggs
candling was conducted to ascertain the condition of the eggs.
This was repeated on the seventh, fourteenth and eighteenth
days of the incubation period.