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Active Periodic Cooling (APC)
CAUTION!
Active periodic cooling function is for professional users. If needed please take assistance from your dealer. Results can
change depending on poultry species, egg sizes, room conditions…etc. Inappropriate, long time of periodic coolings can result with late
hatching and chick looses.
In natural incubation, most birds leaves the nest for a period of time, at least one time after first week of the incubation. Eggs cool and dehumidify
for this period.
Active periodic cooling (APC)
lets user to mimic this natural behavior in artificial incubation.
Last researches show that periodic cooling of goose, duck and even chicken eggs during incubation has positive effects in hatch rates and chick
quality. Especially periodic cooling is very important for most of goose types. Without periodic cooling hatch rates can decrease up to 20-30% in
goose egg incubation. Most breeders makes cooling action manually by taking eggs out of the incubator, cools in hatchery room conditions and
sprays eggs with warm water and then place eggs to the incubator again.
Cimuka presents Active Periodic Cooling (APC) function with 2 different modes as “
cooling for a time (clt)”
and
“cooling for a set (clS)”
Both modes have designed to simulate natural behavior.
Cooling for a time (clt) mode
cuts the heater and humidifier power (for models with humidifier) for an adjusted time and system turns to standard
working conditions. Temperature / humidity alarms are off during cooling.
Cooling for a set (clS) mode
cuts the heater and humidifier power (for models with humidifier) and drops temperature up to an adjusted set point.
It keeps the temperature at this point for an adjusted time than turns to standard working conditions. Temperature and humidity alarms are off
during cooling.
For both modes the system has;
Humidification option
(for models with humidifier) just before cooling finished with adjustable parameters; humidification time and max humidity.
fan assistant cooling option
(for models with cooling fan) to reach desired cooling temperature faster.
Cimuka’s advanced incubator controller lets user to change all parameters with Active Periodic Cooling (APC) menu to try and achieve best hatch
rates for different poultry specie’s eggs.
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