Incubators for Hatching Eggs, 12 Eggs Smart Incubator with Automatic Egg Turning and Humidity Control, Automatic Water Adding for Hatching Chicken, Duck,Quail Goose [2024 Upgrade]

Our previous incubator was VERY old and kind of crappy. So we purchased this one and I was amazed at how well made this incubator was, and how they really thought out the features. So nice to be able to fill the humidifier water without taking off the lid. Being able to easily read the digital display is a real game changer. You know instantly that your temperature and humidity is spot on. The egg turner is a nice feature also. I still have not figured out the egg candling feature, but that is my operator error, and I will go watch some more YouTube videos on that. Definitely a good buy and I would recommend. They say you can use it for duck/turkey/etc... eggs, but we have only used it for chicken eggs.

My 4 year old loves the movie Migration and had been asking me for weeks if she could have an egg out of the fridge to sit on because she really, really, really wanted to hatch one. I told her the best way I could that it just doesn't work that way and she cannot hatch the groceries - fast forward to our visit to grandmas (who has land and chickens), naturally we came home with 3 possibly fertilized chicken eggs! So what was a girl to do other than jump on Amazon and find an inexpensive incubator that can arrive fast!? This was the lucky winner and it did not disappoint! I had never in my life tried to hatch eggs, let alone under so much pressure, lol. This was easy to assemble. The brand/seller provided a video that was super helpful in making sure I assembled correctly. The temp and humidity buttons are easy to use if you need to adjust settings. It was small enough to sit on my counter in our small kitchen. It was quiet. I'd forget it was there sometimes. I filled the water jug all the way up when I set it up and I had to turn around and fill it all the way up once more that same night. After that I think I maybe had to fill it 4 more times throughout the 21 days. The eggs rotated nicely. I left the machine on the preset settings which was 100*F and 60% humidity. I used the light feature to candle the eggs a few times to see if they were indeed fertile. I was able to see veins in 2 of the 3 eggs using that feature so it did the job. My 3rd egg just wasn't fertilized so it wasn't the incubators fault that one didn't hatch. On day 19 I removed the orange rotation device and bumped the humidity to 65% (because my research suggested doing so) and magically on day 21 I noticed the cracks and had 2 healthy baby chicks!! Before seeing those cracks I honestly wasn't sure if there were live chickens in there or not! After they hatched they were dry and fluffy within 12 hours so I moved them to a brooder box. All in all, I'd say this is a nice little starter incubator!

This product worked great! I didn't need to do anything but monitor the temperature and humidity. It maintained both well but when I removed the turning tray and increased the humidity I found that it was best to leave a damp cloth under the eggs to maintain higher humidity. This way I didn't need to open the cover as much to mist the eggs once they started hatching. I purchased this for quail eggs and was a little worried about them having so much space to turn but this didn't seem to be a problem. I had an 87% hatch rate starting with 16 eggs for my first time.

Maybe I just got a defective one cause reviews were good, but not mine.Just set up and did a test before adding eggs.1st the temp is all over the place and doesn't stay within 2 degrees of set temp. Either too high or drops fast. Humidity is way off as well. Yes I had the lid aligned properly, but it's still a loose fitting lid that doesn'tseal great. The fan doesn't work as well. Plugged fan in a normal usb outlet and it works, so maybe my control panel is defective. Thankfully I tested it and didn't waste my eggs and just time. Being it's almost $50 more than others like it I had high hopes, but here I am now taking it to ship back after having it less than 2hrs.

Seems well built for the price. Not complicated or tricky. I feel for price it's a good value. Now for the bad. It's not about the incubator but the instructions and support instead. This is due to the poor user manual /instructions and an inactive EveryGrow website. Once I had everything together, I began a test run and all functions worked as directed and simple enough. Now this is the only issue I had, and probably similar products in that price range has, is that I could not figure out why the humidity level stayed at 73-75% range! I thought the sensor was bad or the controller is not accurate and inferior. Turns out I was wrong. I left for a weekend trip leaving just 3 eggs to test and it stayed at 75% the whole time I was gone. I know the range for the 1st 18 days needs to be 55% - 60% avg so when I returned from my trip I resumed again to try to figure out. No where does the manual included mentions this but in order to regulate proper humidity level "Do NOT leave water bottle in the holder"!!!! You will need to quickly remove eggs, remove trays, dump all water out, dry very well, put it all to together quickly(minutes) and watch humidity rise and it will go to high levels again because the installed sponge is saturated. Just let it run a couple hrs. and it begin to drop down to your settings, or before putting together, swap out little sponge with dry new one and it will adjust much quicker. The key is NOT to leave bottle installed. So, as it drops it may drop lower than your setting, now this is when you incrementally add water. Do so deliberately and patiently. Take bottle to add water and as soon as it blows a couple bubbles in the bottle remove. DO NOT ADD ANYMORE. Just wait and watch humidity begin to rise. It should reach your determined range, about 55% for about 15 days. Raise to 75% for 3 days, bring back down to 55% last three days. At this point if eggs are healthy, formed, hatching should occur. I am currently in day 5 so it remains to be seen on day 21. I candled those 3 eggs, 2 of 3 appeared to show development. The 3rd egg did not. Still could happen. I almost returned it to Amazon but since I figured it out, for the money I will keep it. It's a pretty nice incubator. I will post an update on day 21 or 22 if all goes well or not. Not a bad buy by no means. Instructions are not clear or detailed like we do in the USA.Update: 2 days later I decided to see what would happen if I installed water bottle and it worked. Apparently, there must have been air in the water passage to the tray that kept feeding water. It has now stopped, and it regulates as it should. Incubator works great. All embryos are intact, alive, and continuing through development. 13 days to go until hatch day!Last Update: all 3 eggs hatched! The incubation process was so simple (other than the humidity issue at first) That now I can say the incubator is a 5 star. I knocked down my rating to a 4 because of the manual and their website. But the machine is well worth it. I almost bought the KEBONNIXS, but you have to add water frequently. (small reservoir) The EveryGrow water bottle holds for entire incubation period.Update: I saw where others had problems and were discouraged. Either they happened to get a bad production model or they have no idea what they are doing. It is a very good incubator for the price. I could have easily paid twice as much for an incubator with a brand name but glad I didn't. It does the job. Usually it would a be a beginner that doesn't have the experience to figure any small issues out. For those who that are like that just buy your chicks.