HBlife Digital Egg Incubator for Hatching 9-12 Chicken, Quail and Duck Eggs, with Fully Automatic Egg Turning and Temperature Display, Hatcher for Turkeys, Birds, Parrots and Poultry

I hatch out eggs all the time. Mostly duck and quail eggs. I was looking for something small to hatch my duck eggs since I do better with smaller batches of eggs.This works great! We are a few days out from lock down but all the eggs are developing and the babies are active. I normally have one or two eggs that stop developing around this time. This is a forced air incubator, which I think positively effects the hatch rate. I normally get pretty good #'s but, if everything stays course my hatch rate will be 100%. The fan works great to keep the temperature even throughout the incubator. The nice thing about this is that it has a egg turner that you can use in the incubator or if you are hatching birds, like ducks, that hatch better when hand turned you have the option to omit the turner. This incubator arrived quickly which is great. One thing to keep in mind is that the temperature gauge is in Celsius, not Fahrenheit so you do need to pay attention when setting the temp. I set my incubator temperatures for 99.5 Fahrenheit when hatching eggs which equates to 37.5 Celsius. For me the gauge is a accurate representation of the temperature, it isn't even off by a little bit. The only thing I would question is it's ability to hatch geese eggs. My ducks are larger and so are their eggs and it is a bit of a tight squeeze in there. I don't think that I would be able to fit geese eggs in this incubator. Once the babies hatch I will update my review with photos.

Purchased this incubator to be able to have a hatching incubator and could conintunously be incubatoring and hatching. Also wanted to try and find a incubator that was better for my quail and duck eggs then the $250 incubator I own. I was hesitant because I worried that paying less meant I would be getting less BUT that was NOT the case!!! This incubator has more room, is extremely user friendly, easier to clean, a better design, and more versatile then my other smaller incubators. I was so impressed at how well this incubator fit my quail and duck eggs and rotated them just as efficiently as chicken eggs. Important highlights: Fits quail and Duck eggs just as well as chicken eggs Easy to clean Simple operating instructions and usage Lock down was easier and safer with the raised platform design to protect against drowning. Extra bonus: blocks worked perfect to divide my hatching so I could divide eggs by hen and would know what chicks belonged to which momma!

This was my first time hatching chicks and I had Zero experience at it. My only education regarding the matter was other reviews of this model incubator and LOTS of you tube videos. This incubator was reasonably priced compared to other models. I had difficulty regulating the temperature at first, then I followed someone elses suggestion and added towels around the outside and that seemed to do the trick. The temperature on the machine was off and bit and I had to adjust it down (based on my thermometer I put inside). The humidity is difficult to keep consistent and seems highly dependent on ambient temp. I am in Tennessee and hatched in Feb, so my heat was running a lot in the house. My house ran about 35-40% humidity so keeping the incubator at 55% mean adding water every other day. Took some trial and error to figure out how much to add each time but it was less than the manufacturer recommendations. This model doe not monitor humidity so to do so, you need a hygrometer inside the machine (purchased separately). I was only able to fit 8 chicken eggs in the machine. I could have squeezed nine in, maybe but some of my eggs were large. The turned worked great, no problems there. I did have to use a long thin piece of aquarium tubing and dropper to add water through the vent hole after day 18 as there is no way to add water without lifting the lid otherwise. I set 8 eggs and ALL 8 eggs hatched, so hatch rate was 100%, All in all, it's a great machine if you only plan to hatch once or twice and don't want to spend a lot on a machine. Be prepared to work to keep the humidity in check and with a little ingenuity for adding water, etc and you should be good to go.

HIGHLY recommend this incubator! We successfully hatched 8/12 fertilized chicken eggs. However, the 4 Silkie eggs that did not hatch I believe were already growing before the incubation and so the growth was interrupted by a few days. So we could have had 100% hatch rate, if not for that error. This was our first time to incubate eggs, and this incubator was so easy to use. The instructions are a bit confusing, as it seems it has been translated from another language but not in proper English/structure. We were able to easily read between the lines and figure it out though. We bought a separate thermometer as suggested by previous reviews, to ensure temperature and humidity matched what the machine said. It was only off by a few tenths of a degree. Overall, the incubator was very easy to use; you can change temperature as needed, only needed water every 2 days, and the auto-turning tray was FABULOUS! Very much a set up and leave type machine. It did all the work and we just monitored the process. My kids loved candling and watching the chicks grow. Would buy this again without a thought! We now have 8 new baby chicks and hope to incubate again soon!

Even More Amended Review: TL;DR: I still think it's junk and that you shouldn't buy it. Luckily, the 111°F incident I described below didn't kill all of my eggs. They are hatching out today and it looks like I'll get ~75% to hatch. I completely gave up trying to control the temperature using the built in system or trusting the digital readout in any way. There is a built in utility to correct the thermostat using your own thermometer, but it doesn't appear to actually do anything. I wanted to run the incubator at 37.7°C, but no matter how I changed the correction factor the actual temperature of the incubator stayed the same. In the end I wound up wrapping the incubator in a towel and about halfway wrapping it in a hoodie. I then controlled the temperature by moving the towel to cover slightly more or less of the top of the incubator. This resulted in the machine thinking it was over temperature by ~2°C and flashing for weeks on end, but when I measured the temperature at the level of the eggs with two different lab thermometers it was right where I wanted it. With a few days practice I was able to adjust the towel to compensate for day/night changes in house temperature and keep the incubator within a degree of where I wanted it. Ultimately, the only good things I can say about this are that it A) turned the eggs as it was intended to do and B) has a heating element that functions. The thermostats, controls, instructions, housing, general build quality, and all the rest are exactly what you would expect from the cheapest import junk. Amended Review: Below I've left my original review, it's my impressions after a few days of using this. A couple days later and my perception has changed significantly. This thing is trash, DO NOT BUY IT. The temperature controls are not only inaccurate (basically the gist of my original review, "it's inaccurate, but you can correct for that.") but they are also nonsensical. The instructions tell you to wrap the thing in clothes "or other warms" to help keep the temperature even. Fine - it's completely uninsulated, add insulation, that makes sense. I originally completely wrapped it in a bath towel with only a small hole where the vent is, but the thermostat couldn't keep the thing warm enough. Last night I added a hoodie to the mix, so hoodie around a towel around the incubator, still with a hole for the air vent. This morning the thing was flashing that it was overheated - it was over by 6°C (11°F) according to its own thermostat! I don't know how long the eggs were at 111°F, but it'll be a miracle if anything hatches. I could understand poor equipment - a bad thermostat maybe - that thought that the temperature was 38°C but instead allowed it to get up to 44°C, but WHY ON EARTH would the controller keep the heat on if the temperature was already above the upper limit?!?!? Use it to make yogurt maybe, something that doesn't need precise temperature control. It's not worth using for eggs, it'll just kill them all. Original Review: It's cheap, plain and simple. The housing is essentially two plastic bowls that fit together - there is no insulation at all. The temperature control was already corrected when it arrived, but it was corrected in the wrong direction by almost two degrees (tested against two quality lab thermometers). There is a substantial temperature gradient across the incubator, even with it wrapped in a towel to help retain heat and keep the heat evenly distributed. I'm either going to have to buy a cheap styrofoam cooler or use insulation board to build a box for it - otherwise there's no way I'm going to have a good outcome. Still, it's what I've got, so I'm stuck with it. Knew I should have just built my own.

Best incubator for ducklings and goslings! I liked it so much, I own 3 now and thinking of a 4th. 6 duck eggs or 4 goose & 2 duck can fit in it at a time. 9 chicken eggs. I have used 3 different types of incubators. This holds the humidity and gives me the best hatch rate of them all. You need to get a little humidity thermometer to add inside. Chicks hatch well also in this.

This unit is smaller than what I expected. 1) the egg turner is not wide enough to old three eggs unless they are small. I would have only been able to place six larger eggs in at a time. 2) this unit does best in a climate controlled room. 3) If you decide to manually turn make sure to run your hand around the lid to be sure it closed completely all the way around. I had a mishap with me not setting the lid down correctly and this may have affected my hatch. Also remove the small stem that operates the auto turner. It could bump the eggs when replacing the lid. Overall I only had 3 out of 12 eggs hatch. This was probably due to leaving the lid off slightly and shipping which is really hard on eggs. I will try again with smaller batch of eggs of local eggs. Black and blue copper marans. So cute.

My husband waited a bit too long to gather eggs heading into winter - by the time I candled them - I was sure glad I had this . . . 2 of them. I had too many eggs to use the auto rotate devices & had to turn eggs by hand - maybe 20 eggs in each. Over 3 or 4 months - 90 surviving chicks to increase our flock - you can't save them all, but I didn't loose too many in comparison. Literally a life savior & we got plenty of eggs after another winter ready for spring!!!

La incubadora es una excelente opción para quien busca iniciarse en el tema de la crianza de aves, es totalmente automática y en el modo automático le caben unos 12-15 huevos de gallina. El termómetro funciona de manera aceptable ya que tiene un desfas de +1.2 ºC yo recomiendo antes de iniciar que de compre un higrómetro y un termómetro aparte del que incluye la máquina. Respecto al porcentaje de eclosión se pude resumir en un 80% de efectividad. Gallinas 20-21 días y codornices 16-16 días en eclosionar. LO RECOMIENDO MUY AMPLIAMENTE.

I've hatched six groups of chickens out of this incubator and so far so good. It hatches them well. Of course it depends on how fertile your eggs are but it works great