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Community service activities carried out by the Faculty of Animal Husbandry lecturer team integrated with the Thematic KKN program from the Halu Oleo University Research and Community Service Institute (LPPM) Year 2024 were carried out in Soropia Village, Soropia District, Konawe Regency. Introducing the technique of making hatching machines and how to operate them to the community in Soropia Village. This is intended so that farmers can understand new technology in the poultry farming industry which functions to replace the role of mothers in incubating eggs and is expected to increase livestock productivity more optimally. Service activities in Soropia Village were carried out in two stages. The first stage was observation by conducting documentation data collection methods and discussions with community leaders as stakeholders. The results of the discussion showed that most of the community's understanding of egg incubators was still limited. The second stage involved developing a solution by designing and manufacturing a hatching machine, including procedures for its operation. The output achieved in this activity is an increase in insight and knowledge about automatic egg hatching machine technology.

This community service program at the Class I Correctional Facility SAE L’SIMA Malang was designed to address the urgent need for effective vocational skills development among inmates through productive poultry farming activities. One of the key challenges in poultry farming is the low success rate of egg hatching when relying on conventional, manually operated incubators that often lack precise temperature and humidity control. To overcome this problem, the program introduced the development and implementation of an automatic incubator system as a technological innovation to support both learning and productivity. The program employed a participatory approach, beginning with preliminary site surveys to identify existing resources and limitations within the correctional facility. Subsequently, the team carried out the design and assembly of an automatic egg incubator equipped with a digital system to monitor and regulate temperature and humidity levels. Functional testing was conducted using both chicken and duck eggs to ensure reliability and applicability across different types of poultry. In addition to the incubator prototype, the program also produced a practical user manual to guide inmates in operating and maintaining the equipment independently. The results demonstrated that the automatic incubator significantly improved the hatching success rate compared to traditional manual methods, despite initial challenges such as limited availability of components, restricted funding, and the reliance on outdated manual equipment. The inmates showed high levels of participation and adaptability in learning the operation of the new system, highlighting the potential of this program to enhance not only technical competence but also self-confidence. In conclusion, this initiative successfully integrated vocational training with technological innovation, offering a sustainable and practical solution for small to medium-scale poultry operations. Beyond improving technical skills, the program has broader social implications by equipping inmates with marketable competencies that can support their reintegration into society and contribute to their economic independence after release.

Naturally, a mother hen incubates her eggs until they hatch completely. However, the success rate of natural hatching is low, and hatching can be completed with a maximum of 10 eggs. Chicken farming, more specifically the chicken egg hatching system, breeders usually use an incubator for the process of hatching chicken eggs. In the incubator, there is a lamp that has been provided which is used for the process of warming the eggs so that the eggs can hatch properly and of good quality with incandescent lamps. In general, the process of hatching eggs often encounters problems or obstacles. The obstacle that is often experienced when hatching chicken eggs is that the incubator only uses incandescent lights. Therefore, to avoid this problem, a microcontroller was designed to overcome this problem. This tool is a combination of a microcontroller with an Arduino-based temperature and humidity sensor. With this tool, after the eggs hatch, when the lights are off, the sensor can read the output in the form of the incubator temperature, which is detected by the Arduino serial display. Design methods and experimental methods were used in this research. Tool testing is divided into three types, namely temperature testing, humidity testing and egg load testing. The result of this research is an automatic egg incubator machine that uses Arduino. Several electronic components used in the incubator are Arduino,

The community service program carried out by UPN Veteran East Java, especially the KKNT 06 group, aims to improve the knowledge and skills of the duck breeding community in Nglebak Jombang Village, especially in the aspect of hatching. Group 06 focuses on MSMEs of duck breeders because one of our flagship programs is to make an egg incubator machine. After the use of this egg incubator machine, the hope is that business people know that there is a more efficient way to improve the welfare of their business, and another thing that is desired is that the people of Nglebak Village are not left behind about technology in the current era of globalization. We, the KKNT 06 group, will not just let go of the Nglebak Village community, of course we will accompany them from how to make to how to use this tool until the results are clearly visible for the welfare of the Nglebak Village community.