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Background of The Study

This document provides background information on the duck egg industry in the Philippines. It discusses how most duck eggs in the Philippines are used to produce balut, which accounts for around 80% of total egg production. It also notes that manually candling and sorting eggs to identify fertile vs infertile is labor intensive and inefficient. An "Automated Duck Egg Identifier and Sorter" was created to help identify fertile, infertile, and dead embryo eggs accurately and increase production efficiency in the duck industry without as much labor.

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Background of The Study

This document provides background information on the duck egg industry in the Philippines. It discusses how most duck eggs in the Philippines are used to produce balut, which accounts for around 80% of total egg production. It also notes that manually candling and sorting eggs to identify fertile vs infertile is labor intensive and inefficient. An "Automated Duck Egg Identifier and Sorter" was created to help identify fertile, infertile, and dead embryo eggs accurately and increase production efficiency in the duck industry without as much labor.

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Background of the study

The field of Electronics helps the human’s life, especially in the field of automation,

different kinds of invention to have a simple and convenient way of living. This automation helps

the people to accomplish their task in an uncomplicated. This automation can also help the industry

of the duck egg.

According to “The Philippine Duck Industry: Issues and Research Needs August 2004”

Eighty-seven percent of which is processed into balut and another 7 percent is processed into salted

eggs. The remaining 6 percent consists of century eggs, penoy, and other unidentified forms. This

means that balut accounts for about 80 percent of total egg production. This emphasis on balut

production is a unique feature of the Philippine duck industry. Although unfamiliar to most

foreigners, balut and penoy are delicacies in the Philippines for their unique taste and nutritional

content. Cooked balut is sold as snacks in the evenings by street vendors, either peddling on the

street or stationing on the sidewalk. Most Filipinos speak of balut fondly and proudly.

It is one of difficult problems in duck industry to identify the fertile information of hatching

eggs and eliminate infertile eggs before incubation.

According to the “Candling and grading manual for shell eggs (1951)” Candling eggs is

essentially a study of lights and shadows. Effective candling can be done in semi-dark or

completely dark surroundings. The box-type candling light without reflector has proved

satisfactory when equipped with a 40- or 60-watt bulb, Lights of greater intensity tend to obscure

the factors used in judging quality. The process of candling eggs is twofold in purpose, it enables

the observer to determine the condition of the contents within the egg and to remove those eggs

found inedible, it is a rather simple procedure to learn with efficiency attained through continual
practice. A quick turn or twirl, by twisting the wrist, will spin the contents for full observation and

enable the observer to see the entire surface of the shell.

The candling process is labor consuming, and is not very efficient due to exhaustion and

sight mistakes of workers who have to check thousands of eggs per day. Therefore, usually only

some eggs are randomly selected for determination of flock fertility and sort it according to its

variant.

“Automated Duck Egg Identifier and Sorter”, had helped the beneficiaries to identify the

Fertile (Balut), Infertile (Penoy) and Dead Embryo (Abnoy) accurately, it can also increase the

production in the duck industry without labor consuming.

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