This is a great incubator! If you don’t follow the instructions in the box! I had about a 90% hatch rate with fertilized eggs once I actually put the eggs in cartons and raised the humidity within the Hatcher. There was no way to turn off the rotator, so you have to completely take it out. I also put a small cup of water in the incubator to raise the humidity to help the chicks. But for the price, this is a pretty solid incubator. The temperature stays regulated and you can view all of the birds as they hatch. I’ve only done one brood of chicks, so I can’t speak on durability yet until I’ve done it a few times.

We are on Day 17 of our first hatch and 18 out of the 27 eggs we started with seem to be properly developing. Three of the eggs we pulled pretty quickly, because they did not appear to be fertilized as there was no egg development. The other six seemed to be developing and then stopped. I am pretty happy with this! As long as the incubator machine produces more than one hatch, it’s paid for itself. I gave this 5-stars, because it’s great for someone like me who wants to do this for fun every once in a while.

This unit worked well for 1st batch of eggs. It has self turning and no way to stop it so 3 days be for hatching I think ok the egg tray out and just set the eggs on the bottom. It does not have humidity control so my second batch I couldn’t keep the humidity up where it needed to be.

It was easy to set up and easy to monitor the progress. And it successfully hatched healthy chicks