Chicken Egg Incubator, Automatic Egg Hatching Incubator,4-6 Mini Eggs Poultry Hatcher with Temperature Control Humidity Display for Hatching Chicken Quail Duck Bird Eggs

I was able to hatch 8 out of 8 fertile quail eggs with this incubator. I got this incubator because it was simply one of the cheapest ones that had fair ratings, and for that reason I did not expect much. But I was pleasantly surprised with the success rate and how easy it was to use. Automatic turning worked perfectly with 8 quail eggs. You just need to add sticks to make the gap between the turners narrower. It turns eggs every 2 hours, and you can also turn them more often by pressing the "+" button. I pressed the "+" button whenever I walked by the incubator, and I think our eggs got turned every 30 min or so during the day. That may have been a contributing factor to the success (?). It has no humidity control, so I simply followed the instruction. I added water to the side every day until lock down, and after that I sprayed water onto the eggs for additional humidity. I was worried that it was too humid than ideal but it worked. The quail eggs came from my own breeding pair and they were 1-8 days old when I started incubation. There was no risk of damage from shipping. Overall, I think this is a perfect incubator for a hobbist quail keeper like me, who wants to incubate a small batch of fertile eggs every once in a while. Edit: For my second incubation, I placed a small hygrometer inside along with quail eggs. The humidity was 30-40% when it was dry, and adding one small squirt of water increased humidity to 80-70%, which eventually dropped to ideal humidity of 50-60% after a few hours. I learned from my second incubation that I was adding way too much water into this during my first one, filling up the water reservoir part every day. The humidity must have been 80-99% constantly. My success rate was high for both incubations (100%), but for those who want to play it safe but not want to buy a small hygrometer, one way to tell the humidity being at ideal level is to make sure the clear lid fogs up, which happens when humidity is 50-70%, but not with lots of water drops, which happens when humidity is above around 90%. Higher than ideal humidity does not seem to kill fetuses inside the eggs according to my success rate from the first incubation though.

I bought this for my 80 year old grandma thinking she would be able to keep in right in her living room and hatch a few eggs to enjoy the entire process. We’ve tried THREE TIMES to hatch eggs. The temp goes down to 97 and then shoots to 103. I thought she was messing with it so I brought it home and it does the same thing. I have tried different thermometers and tried in the styrofoam and without. It’s horrible and the eggs start to develop and get a good ways into the incubation period and then the temp is out of wack and they stop growing. I have given it three chances and now I’m out of the return window so I’m stuck with the piece of junk.

I used this incubator in my classroom so the students could experience the hatch. I placed 6 bantam eggs inside and 1 normal sized egg. I candled on day 7 and 14 and could see viability in all the eggs. On day 21 only 1 had hatched on day 22 a second hatched but that one really struggled and hatched with a few issues. As I researched I read it was likely from inconsistent temperature in the incubator. I did notice that it was difficult to keep the temperature steady so I placed a small plastic container over the incubator on Day 10. This increased tor humidity and helped the temperature stay more steady. And I didn’t bother it again until I candled them again at lock down. I’m not sure what went wrong but i successfully hatched 17 eggs from that same batch in 3 other separate incubators from a set of 24 which is a pretty high hatch rate. I will keep it but only use it for extra eggs that I don’t need chicks from…and so my students can watch the pieces again.

it does not hold the right temper...it cooked my eggs

First off, I would like to point out it does fit 6 chicken eggs, you have to lay them at a slant, and the automatic egg turner works beautifully. The last incubator I bought from the same company you had to turn them manually, and I don’t have time for that. Someone had mentioned the screws were rusty, but the only screws I found were above where you put the water, so if it doesn’t get overfilled in the designated reservoir that shouldn’t happen. Another reviewer mentioned that if you fill the water all the way big water droplets form on the window, and that means there’s too much humidity, so I’m going to be only filling when the water is low, not to the top every day. The only reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is because you have to open the lid and move one egg to see where you add water. Once we are on lockdown they want you to open and spray the eggs with the spritzer included after taking the rollers out and putting the small netting down, but I feel like that would shrink wrap the chicks. Only time will tell! I will update this review with pictures and success rate. Obviously you have to take into account if your eggs are fertile or if they are damaged, the success rate depends on that as well, not just the machine. For a small egg hatching project, this is the perfect little incubator and a great price.