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.

I have two of these incubators and love them because they double as brooders after the eggs hatch. I have hatched and raised three budgies (parakeets) using this incubator. Baby budgies are tiny naked and helpless and I raised them from hatching in this. I don't understand why one reviewer was having problems. I must say that it works best at room temperature. In a hot room it may get too hot. Do not wrap it in blankets because the thermostat doesn't work well in a hot place.

CONS: No humidity guage and unable to accurately control the humity.The directions were not easily understood.Simperler to go online for info.Just add a digital therometer and humidity guage, then calibrate.This is why i gave it 4 stars.PRO: Easy to use, compact and the least expensive for the quality you get.Worth the price. Good quality.Turns eggs automatically, small and compact.Great for first time users who are starting out.Or, if you only look to incubate no more then 6 full size eggs at a time.

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.

After researching incubators I came across this model and based off what I found, it was a solid incubator that could produce a good hatch rate. The instructions that came with it are not too helpful but there are YouTube videos that provide good instructions on setup and functions.Once it arrived I immediately plugged it in and was able to mix and match 12 mallard eggs into the tray so that I wouldn’t have to rotate them by hand. After 5 days all 12 of the eggs had embryos forming in them. It is now day 8 and they’re still doing well. (Will post an update on how many hatch).The incubator had a small crack in the top portion of it that wasn’t a big deal but could affect the lifespan of the incubator. I messaged the seller about it and he sent me a whole new unit for FREE!! I thought that was rather nice and I greatly appreciated it!Pros:-Customer support-Cost-Auto-turning-Solid build-Pretty accurate temperature-Easy/simple set-upCons:-No humidity gauge (just buy one for $20)-Only reads in Celcius (not a big deal but in the US we use Fahrenheit)-Instructions are no help (seriously don’t use it, just go on YouTube)

It worked for a couple batches, but it is really loud, the turner stopped working after the fourth time so if I do still use it I have to manually turn the eggs.