Heartbeat Modulation Device for Gender Identification of Embryonic Chicken in the Egg

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to apply the heartbeat modulation technique into a device that determine the sex of a chicken embryo five days after incubation. The separation constant, embryo weight, and temperature are the essential factors in determining the embryonic chicken's sex which was the input data of the device for it to determine the gender of the embryonic chicken. The relationship between heartbeat rate, embryo weight difference, and beat rate as temperature changes can be expressed as first order and first-degree differential equation as expressed in the earlier study of the Heartbeat modulation technique. The device was composed of heartbeat sensor as the input, microcontroller which process the data, and the 4 x 16 LCD screen which shows the result. The result shows that the average heartbeat of a male chick is 64.5 beats per minute which is lower than the female chick of 73.875 beats per minute. The weight difference also differs wherein the male chick results for an average of 0.1825 grams vs of the female’s 0.1213 grams. The female’s twenty-five (25) average beat difference was also notable that it almost doubles versus of the males twelve and three hundredth seventy-five (12.375) average beat difference. For eight trials, the device results with an overall accuracy level of 89.3887 percent.