incubator
Sign in to saveAlso known as egg incubator, egg incubators, breeding machine, setters, hatchers, hatching machine
device to keep eggs warm
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- agricultural tool
- Image
- Egg incubator.jpg
- Has use
- incubation
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- Commons category
- Incubators (poultry)
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Encyclopedic overview
A modern egg incubator
An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “incubator” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.