Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Poultry Farmers

D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

Left: MIT D-Lab instructor Ahmad Zakka sets up a thermal sensor in a new low-cost brooder box located at the African Diaspora Council of Switzerland – Branch Cameroon (CDAS–BC)-operated farm in Afambassi, Cameroon. Right: Kristine Januskaite, leader on the MIT D-Lab Cameroon trip during Independent Activities Period this past January, holds a baby chicken that would be heated in a D-Lab designed brooder box using beeswax. Credits: Photos courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | Aug 12, 2024 | Lisa Capone | Office of the Vice Provost for International Activities

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D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

MIT D-Lab Design Review + Dinner: Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Chick Farmers

Students from the D-Lab class Applications of Energy in Global Development with mentors and community partners from DAS-BC (African Diaspora Council of Switzerland) in Cameroon standing by their first low-cost brooder box and one load of beeswax thermal batteries. From left to right: Megan Harvey '25, Tyler Ea '25, Kristine Januskaite (trip leader), Ahmad Zakka SM'23 (trip leader), Carole Erlemann Mengue (founder of CDAS-BC), Kathrin Witschi (founder of CDAS-BC), and an intern.

News | Mar 13, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

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MIT D-Lab Design Review + Dinner: Off-Grid Brooder for Cameroonian Chick Farmers

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Video | May 03, 2023 | MIT Morningside Academy for Design

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Coopération avec des étudiants du MIT au Cameroun

MIT D-Lab students Josh Maldonado '22 (left) and Ambre Delicap '23 (center) work with local partner on chick brooder. Photo: MIT D-Lab

Video | Oct 10, 2022 | Antenna Foundation

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Coopération avec des étudiants du MIT au Cameroun

Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax

Video | Feb 13, 2023 | African Solar Generation

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Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.

News | Jun 24, 2022 | Summer Weidman | J-WAFS

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Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced: A safe, off-grid chicken brooder for smallholder poultry farmers in developing countries.