APDOE Egg Incubators for Hatching Eggs, Temperature and Humidity Control, Automatic Egg Turning, Egg Candler, External Water Bottle, Air Vent, for Chicken, Duck & Quail Eggs, 12 Eggs

This will probably run long, so if you want the short version- I bought this in an emergency situation, not knowing what to expect. It performed great (with a little learning curve) and hatched my one lone egg. I recommend this incubator! If you want the whole story, here goes. Our broody hen was sitting on 5 eggs. One day, another hen got into her broody pen and apparently laid an egg. I got the hen out, but I didn't think to check under Mama. She had taken the egg the one hen laid and had it for about 4 or 5 days before I moved her to check her eggs and found it. At that point, it was developing. I left it with her until her eggs hatched, knowing I would need to take it when she left the nest. I ordered this as a quick solution because my regular incubator was full. The instructions for this one are clear. The control panel is bright and easy to use. The candler is just okay, but all built-in ones are, best I can tell. I use another light to candle. I set it up, which was a very quick and easy process, and let it run for a few hours per the instructions. After it "settled", the humidity was up near 90%! I had the one bottle/channel full like most other incubators work. I took the bottle off, leaving just a little water in the bottom of the incubator. It still only dropped to the 60s. Not good enough for the first 18 days. It should be noted that the relative humidity in my location is commonly 70% or higher, and that includes the room where the incubator was, thanks to a very drafty old home. I decided to dry hatch, and I suctioned all the water out. This dropped the humidity to about 40 percent, and it stayed between 35 and 45 the entire time. I put in my egg and hoped for the best. I candled the egg almost daily (I know, you're not supposed to) because I really wanted to closely monitor its development, being unsure of exactly how far along it was. The turner in the incubator worked perfectly, and the temp and humidity held steady. Through candling, when I could see the egg was almost entirely full, I removed the turner and added some nonslip mat. I filled both bottles, added them back to the incubator, and the humidity stayed between 65 and 70% the next few days until the chick hatched. We had entered a somewhat drier spell, and the room humidity had fallen into the 40s. I do believe this incubator is highly influenced by ambient humidity, moreso than my other one. So you'll want to watch that closely and adjust as needed. My sweet little chick hatched without any concerns and joined a group of 4 wyandottes we bought for company. The chick is a bantam, but the bigger girls love him all the same. The incubator was incredibly easy to clean. There are no electronics in the bottom, so it's easy to wash with soap and water. It's all stored until I need it again. I might have bought this for one egg in a "need it now" situation, but I would rely on it for my hatching my pure breed chicks as well. If you're considering it, don't wait! You won't be sorry.

Holds temp and humidity sufficiently but you do need to run it a bit to stabilize like the directions say. The candling light on top is not strong enough to see thru brown or darker colored shells. You'll need a separate and stronger light for those. Very easy to use, set up, and clean. The directions are detailed and it's a very good value for the price. Have 2 chicks hatched no problems and 4 more eggs pipping right now. So if you have fertile eggs then this incubator is very good, very easy to use and the price is very good value. The insert with instructions includes all you need to know if you're hatching eggs for the first time. Overall very happy with my purchase. Additional note: the incubator did run a little warm, even though it said it was 100 F, it was a slightly warmer so recommend checking with a separate thermometer inside before setting eggs. There have been some studies that show a slightly higher mortality in male chicken eggs when the temp runs high and a higher mortality in female chicken eggs when the temp runs low, but also lower hatch rate overall if the temps are off. That seems to hold true as I got 75% female to 25% male out of my hatch. I didn't realize this machine I got runs a little hot and didn't check the temps independent from the thermometer on the machine before setting eggs, my mistake. The eggs also hatched 2 days earlier because it ran warmer and I only had 6 eggs out of 12 that hatched. Out of the 12, 6 hatched, 3 were very well developed but died before hatch (probably males), one was barely developed and 2 never developed. If you have a rooster and hens and have eggs to spare this could possibly be a way to get more hens and less roosters but it was only one study I read and only one hatch experience so far by me so try this at your own risk.

I agree with all the other positive reviews so I'll keep this one short. This is a great incubator (our first) and it has performed flawlessly. We are due our first hatchlings in a day or two. I read at least one reviewer who stated that the humidity fluctuates significantly and is difficult to control. We found that the humidity fluctuates in sync with ambient humidity levels which has nothing to do with the incubator itself. Our incubator's humidity shot up quite a few percentage points during a rainy spell that we had and then dropped back down afterward. The instructions offer effective solutions for adjusting the humidity. We are very happy with this incubator in all respects.

My experience with home incubators has been less than thrilling. Big foam boxes with fans, messy trays for humidity, thermometers and hygrometers, condensation, air vents - this changed all that! We have geese that are not great natural incubators. After losing two goslings to nature, I thought I’d see what I could find. This unit (18 size) comes with egg ‘racks’ for 18 chicken/duck eggs and 8 goose/turkey eggs. It also came ready to go into service! I only needed half an hour to set it up and it heated promptly and humidity was ready in less than an hour. Easy set up and operation, it came with clear instructions, and the digital controls are easy to set and adjust manually. I have five goose eggs. All were at different stages, so I placed a small square of 1/2 inch mesh under the one egg that did not need turning. The turner is strong and moved 5 goose eggs gently. I set it for every 3 hours, but it can be set to 1 or 2 hours. It is a little shallow for geese and turkeys once they hatch and try to stand. Other than that minor inconvenience I wish I’d had this years ago. Trouble free, adjustable everything, not too loud. I’m very happy with it and don’t hesitate to recommend it!

This product can not score anything higher than a one due to a failure that could have killed my pipping ducklings. I will talk about what the product can do, what we used it for, and everything else, but a random failure like this is inexcusable. So please when you read this review, keep what I say in mind. But before I even begin: ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS have a backup incubator! You will see why. Also, this will be a long review, but it can't be helped. I don't want anything bad to happen to anyone else's eggs. If it means I have to be longwinded, so be it. Please be careful. Alright. Currently, we had a batch of about 16 duck eggs, at various weeks and levels of readiness. Because of this, we have two incubators: One set up for embryo development and turning (the nurture right 360 incubator), and this one, for hatching. We went with the 12 egg capacity one, which comes in a pretty small profile and nestled quite nicely next to our main unit. Since this incubator was primarily for hatching, we didn't use the turning feature since you do not turn eggs in lockdown and leave them be. Thus, I can't critique the turner since it was not utilized. The main features that were utilized were the water reservoir bottles, the heater, and we did test the Candler. The vents...well, they were left open, kind of hard to review a vent. It does what a vent does. The Candler was fine. Did well. If you own a nurture right 360 incubator, you will notice some pretty strong similarities between this product and that one. You have two little trays on the outside of the unit that you feed water into, and it effectively trickles into these recessed trays at the base, and the heating element of the incubator causes the water at the bottom to heat up and create a humid environment. The difference is that although both incubators have this feature, this one opts to create a closed reservoir system using bottles and a finnicky plastic "lid" that goes over the hole of the tray and trickles the water in that way. This was a neat feature that I wished the other incubator had because it is much easier in my opinion to remove a bottle and adjust as necessary (in theory) then slowly injecting water into the tray via syringe. I say in theory, because in a situation where you have to remove a bottle either to refill or to simply remove to alter the humidity environment, you have to effectively wrestle it out of the tray, which will jostle the eggs inside. The plastic lids just end up being TOO snug. ....but that's it. That's all the nice things I can say about it. The adjustable water bottle feature that is neat... ...but this product failed at a very critical moment, and now we could potentially lose a duckling or two over it, and possibly over seven embryos are going to be impacted as well. I am trying not to be so upset over it, but here's what happened. Over all, we had put at least seven eggs through the hatching process in this incubator. The very first egg hatched pretty much text book perfect. The zip line was perfect, the membrane was moist, and the temperature and humidity just seemed to be highly accurate to what the readings said. The egg that we hatched first was a lone survivor from her week, so she would have hatched with others but life had different plans. So fast forward to now, we had six eggs from the same week all scheduled for lock down. We put them in there, and noticed that the 12 egg capacity of the unit must be referring to naturally smaller eggs, not average sized duck eggs, so it was a bit snug in there and this is WITHOUT the turner. That was fine, and in any other incubator the more that's in there, the more stable things tend to be. But that was NOT the case with this one. So, right from the jump, the textbook duck hatching process did not happen as cleanly for these. They all had some manner of issue with their hatch save for one. The first two to hatch from the six were more allocated towards the outer right side of the incubator, they hatched together, but they weren't able to get a clean zip. They came out ok, reallocated to the brooder, no problems. The next one to hatch, was actually hatching earlier than their siblings by an entire day. This usually indicates a fluctuation from the temperature (which was not the case) or they simply were further along, much more likely the case. The duckling was not shrink wrapped, but you could tell with the coloration of the inner egg shell something was off. It was not behaving as it should with 70% humidity. It was acting like it was on the low end of 60%. But that shouldn't be since the inner humidity would be stable with both water bottles being used. I ended up removing one, and tested the inner humidity through another tool and noticed with OUT the second bottle, it was climbing to the proper humidity level (and with both, the humidity was off about 5%). The duckling hatched, clean bill of health, no harm no foul. Into the brooder. Three eggs left. This is where the nonsense reaches a critical point. So this whole time, one of the eggs was positioned on the opposite side of the brooder where the others were tending to hatch. They hadn't pipped yet, while their siblings were. That's not too weird on its own, but it was of note, because once the three other ducklings hatched and moved on, the three remaining eggs were left over, but the temperature was struggling to maintain it's programmed point, swinging a degree off wildly but not in a normal manner. ON TOP OF THIS. ON TOP. OF THIS. One of the three started hatching, but was showing signs of the membrane being too tough to get out of, again. So I checked the humidity, and it wasn't reading at 75%, it was reading at 62%. That's a 13% swing in the opposite direction. We had to intervene to get the duckling out of the rest of it's shell. Clean bill of health, into the brooder. Two eggs left. Remember, all same week, one of the eggs on the opposite end wasn't showing signs of pip, despite the others. Well I was getting really exhausted from how inconsistent it was being, and was starting to concoct something else to try but I wanted them to at least get through this hatch since it would be too risky this late to switch them over. Well, the egg on the far end finally did pip, in the wrong direction. The pointed end. When this happens, you usually have to intervene at this point since something clearly went wrong and ducklings from wrong end pips don't tend to have great success rates on self hatch. It wasn't just this though. As we noticed this, the entire unit. THE ENTIRE UNIT. completely shorts out. Dies. It fricking dies. Heater is gone. Humidity is whatever the hell is going on in there. So we had to immediately relocate the two remaining eggs into the embryo one, remove the turner, all this stuff. On top of this, now we have to triage and try to save the wrong pipped duckling only to learn the poor baby is shrink wrapped, which is a tell tale sign of inadequate humidity. Poor darling is rough, but breathing, alive. Yolk not absorbed, it's a whole thing. We can't even process that this incubator just absolutely shorted out and broke for no discernable reason. The second egg seems to be ok for now, but because of this emergency, and the FAILURE of this unit, we had to adjust everything in the embryo incubator to accommodate these two, so the embryos are not in ideal conditions as a result of this. So not only could I lose this duckling we are trying to save from this unit's absolutely deplorable humidity conditions, we could lose embryos too. This is unacceptable. This is completely, and utterly unacceptable. I understand freak things can happen, I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but it just died for no reason. It was struggling to even maintain humidity despite ideal circumstances that the unit even calls for (use both bottles for higher humidity, only for that to NOT be true) and I could lose some ducklings over this. So forgive me if I seem a bit heated, but seriously, this is why you need to have two incubators. If I lose some embryos, so be it, but these two ducks have a chance now because of the backup. As for this unit? Does it work? I hatched some ducklings in it. It "can" work, but you really have to baby this thing and it isn't something I don't think most people could dedicate to doing since it fluctuates so wildly. Especially if you work a job outside of the home. MAYBE it's just my unit since it just died, but we are talking about living creatures here that require so much particular settings to work as described, and this failed the test in a critical way. Yes, the nurture right incubator is pricier. But it WORKS. IT WORKS AS DESCRIBED. I would highly encourage you to consider paying the extra, or if you are going to buy one of these cheap incubators you need to make sure you have a backup. That is all. 1 stars. This product failed and my ducklings almost died as a result. I do not recommend.

Satisfied with product. The humidity sensor was erratic at start and at the last 3 days, but was able to manually compensate for it. Temperature control, egg rotation, and lockdown was spot on.

I purchased this incubator with the intention on hatching my own store purchased fertile eggs (instead of buying chicks) and rasing chickens for the sole purpose of having our own fresh eggs. I actually bought my fertile eggs from a local grocery store, which is crazy lol. (Make sure if you're planning on doing the same, you make sure the eggs are fertile and not the regular everyday store bought eggs) I wanted to go through the whole process of the whole egg experience, which has been an amazing little journey. I have enjoyed every step of this process and am excited that I have 6 more days until hatching day! I started with 10 and now have 3. In no way is that the fault of anyone (me, the incubator etc.) This is just life and what can happen during the incubation process. The incubator keeps at the temperature that you set it, so this part was great. The humidity level was a little more of a challenge for me. I base this on the temperature of my home, the location I have the incubator (my kitchen counter) as well being new to this whole thing. Towards these last days I've finally managed to keep the humidity level within a certain range after some trial and error. The Styrofoam insert (don't throw that way) is definitely a life saver in helping keep the humidity level set at a steady temp for a great portion of the day. At night time, I wrap a towel around it as well since it gets so cold at night. The incubator also has an automatic egg Turner (which you need for most of the 21 days). I've seen some incubators that require you to manually turn them and for being my first time, I wanted it to be one less step I would have to do (or remember to do) The incubator is very easy to use, It is nearly silent and it's definitely great quality for a beginner backyard breeder like me. The incubator itself is not cheaply made and seems to me to be very durable for the purposes of hatching eggs. I have had no issues with this at all. It holds 12 eggs, which I recommend you start with 10-12 as a beginner, I'm glad I did. I will give an update (hopefully as a chick mama) as to how it help up after the chicks hatched inside!

I I previously had a Hova-Bator and spent a ridiculous amount of money upgrading it. I added a fan, an automatic egg turner, and even a fancy thermometer that connected to my phone. Despite all of that, I struggled to get even 50 percent of the eggs to hatch and eventually got so frustrated I threw the incubator away. Then I spent way too much time researching whether I should let a broody hen hatch eggs or buy another incubator. Google convinced me that cheap incubators don't work. I was so deep into the research rabbit hole that I was considering a Brinsea. Looking back, that would have been a very expensive waste of money with gas as high as it is. A friend offered me some eggs so I could test the incubator and let my daughter watch the miracle of life. I didn't buy expensive hatching eggs. I wasn't even sure how fresh these eggs were. Some had reportedly already been sat on. In other words, they were far from ideal eggs. I put 13 little serama eggs in this incubator, followed the directions, and then mostly left it alone. I wasn't expecting much. I didn't pay close attention to the hatch date because I had convinced myself it probably wasn't going to work well, i should have set an alarm on my phone to remove the turner. Then I heard peeping and I removed the turner a little late, waited, and watched. Twelve out of thirteen eggs hatched last night/this morning. Healthy chicks, no leg issues, no assisted hatches, and no trouble. As I'm writing this, I'm still giving the last egg another day just in case. After all the time I spent overthinking, researching, and almost spending a small fortune on an incubator, this inexpensive one ended up giving me the best hatch rate I've ever had. Literally!! If you're sitting there with twenty browser tabs open trying to decide if you need the fanciest incubator money can buy, this is your sign to calm down and hatch some eggs with this cheap 🐤 one. I'm unsure if the humidity is accurate on this thing, but they hatched fine with it showing a max of 66 percent. I usually like it a little higher. Maybe Im overcomplicating it considering it worked so well. Signed, a chronic overthinker who almost bought a Brinsea, effortlessly hatched 12 out of 13 questionable eggs this morning. Update- last egg wasn't fertile Yes all 13 eggs fit in this 12 egg incubator. They were a little bigger than a golf ball.

This is perfect for what I want it for. Not hatched anything in it yet. Eggs will be going in this week. It was super easy to set up using the instructions and even came with a brilliant hatching guide, telling you everything you needed to know. I was especially delighted with the candling torch and spray bottle that was included. Looking forward to seeing the results!

Works perfectly!

Easy to setup and love that it easy to control temperature and humidity. Great for small setup or starter hatching. Also unlike others we have had the instructions and very easy to follow and comes with a handy egg guide.

Stooped working after 16 days, and I lost all but 3 eggs. Up until that point I was relatively impressed. The humidity is sooo high and that is an issue. Cheap. Save up and buy a proper one.

Still my absolute favorite incubator. It is small, reliable, accurate and I have huge success rates hatching eggs in this.