00:00My name is Christopher Trapez, a development economist and innovator from Malawi.
00:08I make incubators from recycled materials.
00:11Being a development economist and also having skills in electronics has made me build this
00:17incubator in a perfect way.
00:19So in this video I'll be showing you how everything works.
00:27This is one of the incubators that I make.
00:29This one is a mid-sized incubator and it has several parts.
00:33The first part that is available here is the temperature control unit.
00:38It controls the heat inside the incubator and sometimes it also controls the turning
00:44of the eggs.
00:46Inside the incubator we have trays where we put the eggs and these are the trays.
00:54Another part that is important for the incubator is the humidity control, the grating section,
01:01which is where we put the containers that contain the water.
01:25Every incubator that we make has a fan for dissipating the heat.
01:30We also have bulbs which produce the heat.
01:34The other thing is the wires which are used for transmitting the signals and also electricity
01:40throughout the incubators.
01:46These incubators are made from recycled materials.
01:50When we use the recycled materials we reduce the cost of making the incubator since we
01:56source the components from all the electronic equipment, like old TVs or old radios and
02:03all other electronic gadgets.
02:05So we extract the components then we build the control circuits.
02:21The main cause for the project to start was to help the farmers in my community since
02:26most of the farmers lack enough capital to have expensive technology for their production.
02:34So after time, farmers from other communities started to reach us after seeing the impact
02:40that it had.
02:45The third egg incubator costs 60,000 kwacha, which is $60.
02:53And the bigger size incubator is 600 eggs, which costs $200.
03:05Chicken eggs, when they are put in the incubator, they take 21 days just as the normal chickens.
03:10So the hatchlings are usually in the range of 70% to 90%.
03:16And after they hatch, we transfer them into a brooder, which takes the responsibility
03:23of the mother chicken, because the chicks are usually not good at regulating the temperature
03:30on their own.
03:31So this brooder is automatic.
03:32So they set the right temperature for the chicks.
03:35And after a few weeks, then we transfer them, we put them outside for them to go on their
03:42own.
03:43So the process repeats again and again.
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