18 Egg Incubator with Automatic Egg Turning and Humidity Control, Incubators for Hatching Eggs, Chicken, Ducks, Goose, Pigeon, Quail, Parrot Incubator for Farm, Lab, Science Classroom, Home (Orange)

The media could not be loaded. This is by far the best beginner-friendly incubator for the money on Amazon.I initially purchased just one to try incubating eggs for my Ayam Cemani chickens. This is an uncommon breed, and it’s not unusual to have low hatch rates from them given that Ayam Cemani derive from landrace chickens living in the jungles of Java. They aren’t your average barnyard bird.As such, I didn’t anticipate much success; but my first hatch produced an 80% hatch rate! Temps were steady at 100.4 with humidity at around 45-50% until lockdown. At lockdown (on day 18), humidity increased to 75-80% with excellent results.The incubator performed as expected, with easy setup, clear controls + setting displays, and little to no maintenance issues thereafter. Simply change the water bottles when they run low, and add the second bottle on day 18 at lockdown.Some things I’ve noticed now after running this incubator a few times:1) The ambient temp/humidity in the room it’s kept in can have an impact on how steady those things are inside the incubator. You’ll get best results if it’s set up in a room that doesn’t have much temp/humidity fluctuation to begin with.2) The candler light isn’t really strong enough on its own to be super effective for anything other than a rudimentary check. You can use it to see that “Yup, things look different in there on day 17 than they did on day 7” but that’s about it.3) This incubator will keep running in lockdown mode past day 21, which is fabulous because contrary to popular belief, some eggs may take an extra day or two past that point to finally hatch. I had one egg in my most recent clutch that pipped on day 23. Sometimes you just need to be patient, and this incubator makes that easy.4) It’s an easy unit to clean. Make sure you do so thoroughly between each hatch! If not cleaned properly, bacteria can build up and cause new eggs to go bad before they have a chance to develop. If you’ve used any incubator for years without issue, only to suddenly notice a decrease in success rate, it’s probably in part because of bacterial buildup inside the unit.The only way this machine could possibly be any better is if there were an option for turning off the alarm. I know many folks prefer a dry hatch method, which involves lower humidity for the first 17 days of development. This incubator will sound an alarm if the humidity level (or temp) drops too low - a blessing and a curse, depending on what your hatching situation happens to be. The option to turn the alarm off (or simply allowing a wider range of humidity settings in the first place!) would make this incubator beyond perfect.I was so impressed with how easily it allowed me to improve my hatch rates that I immediately bought another one, so that my hens are no longer on nest duty themselves. It’s been a fabulous experience to hatch eggs in my own home with zero guess work involved!

The media could not be loaded. 1/5 for now, will see how Amazon/manufacturer handles this.I read other reviews and knew there was a chance this was crap but figured $90 should get something decent.Setup was pretty easy, temp and humidity is off like everyone else says, recommend getting a third party hygrometer in there and using a medical grade thermometer to double check temperature.Days 1-17 had no problems that I could see, I have dark eggs so the candler didn’t work but that’s fine, candled with a flashlight and saw proper growth.On day 18 the incubator malfunctioned, as seen in the video the display just blinks and outputs no temp etc. leaving my eggs probably to die. Luckily I have a hen I moved them under so fingers crossed as I checked the incubator 3 times a day (which this product should alleviate this hassle but I read I couldn’t trust it) so it couldn’t have been more than a few hours that it was off.Regardless unacceptable at this price, will update review once I receive feedback from Amazon/manufacturer.UPDATE**0/5 stars, manufacturer gladly sent me a replacement and I sent back the old defective one. The new one arrived and looked slightly different in a nicer way, which was nice.Except 12 days in it has the EXACT same problem as last time, being that it is completely broken unusable and leaving my 14 eggs to die, ALL of which had good growth!To be clear, this incubator is in a temperature and humidity regulated indoor room inside my house. The power is steady, no issues with outlets, power outages, etc. The product failed the EXACT same way as the last one where all power to the machine is lost and the display just blinks on and off.This product has not only wasted additional money but has somehow managed to also waste a bunch more of my time and severely bum me out as I was really trying to grow my flock out and now im left with another set of eggs killed by a faulty incubator.DO. NOT. BUY.

We've had great success with this incubator. Has a tray for large or regular eggs. We even hatch bantam size eggs in ours. It's easy to clean. Programmable temperature, days of incubation, humidity, and rotation. The automatic rotation saved us a lot of time, and did a good job rotating each egg. Temperature and humidity seem to be spot on. We loved that there's an alarm when the temp or humidity is too low. We lost power during a few storms, which made the alarm very important. Easy to put together and take apart. Good quality. The candling light wasn't strong enough for our eggs, not sure if egg color matters, but honestly, it wasn't a big deal for us.