Fully Automatic Egg Incubator for 16 Eggs, Poultry Hatcher Machine with Temperature Self-Control, Automatic Egg Turner & Egg Candler, Ideal for Hatching Chickens, Quail, Duck, Goose, Turkey

Incubator is small and quiet - directions are lacking. Mine didn't come with the bottle to add water to regulate humidity. It serves its purpose but the electronics are difficult to use and the directions are exactly zero help.

This is the worst thing I ever bought on Amazon. It is more noisy than a fridge too! I had never incubated eggs before and did not appreciate the importance of regulating the humidity. I did buy the the recommended humidity meter but it took 2 weeks for it to be delivered. By then the eggs were scrambled. But even if I had it I would have failed because this unit has no way regulate the humidity. Whatever you inject or spray into it is a total crap shoot. It is impossible to maintain a steady humidity with this unless you tweak for 15 minutes every hour. Have a nice nights sleep!I did figure out how to make this unit workable though. All you need is 2 cat food/tuna cans and an awl or something to punch some holes.Here is what you do:1. Fill one of the cans with water heated to the temperature of the unit -- around 99 degs. F and place it in a corner of the unit. This does reduce the capacity of eggs you can hatch.2. In the other can, punch a hole in the middle and 4 more about 3/4" inch from the edge evenly spaced. Stack it on the first can. You do have to fine tune this to get it right. The holes you punch can be made larger, so start with smaller size and make sure the cans stack tightly. I have achieved the recommended steady 40% to 50% doing this. The water will eventually evaporate after 2 to 3 days so be sure to stay aware + fill when needed.3. To achieve the needed 65% to 75%. for the last few days of hatching, simply remove the top can. If it is not quite high enough you can spray into there a bit too.

Nice and compact but yet the perfect size to hatch up to 16 eggs in it, depending on the size of egg. I've got chicks busy hatching as we speak.. so thumbs up for this incubator

3.5 The price is good and it functions as it should. I would prefer seeing the eggs while developing Tho. The picture shows the incubator that sits inside a foam sleave. I couldn't find evidence it's supposed to be out - rather the cut outs support it being left inside. Thankfully it was easy to figure out assembly because the manual was not designed for English readers and therefore lacks many details. The temperature reads in Celsius only and it does not have a hygrometer or humidity display. This will completely affect your ability to hatch waterfowl. I had to order that separately. Overall I am pleased. It's fun and does great managing the temperature once you have the hang of the functions. I would order it again considering the affordable price.

Works great keep the styrofoam on the bottom it helps hold heat.I had eggs that had gotten cold over night due to a disturbed broody hen and only lost one egg and all the extras I put in hatched 3 days after the rescue eggs.

UPDATE:It's been a few weeks and my quail have hatched! 5 of the eggs were never fertilized, and of the remaining 9, 7 hatched. Here's a few things I've learned since writing the above.1. The temperature will drop a full degree or two when you put the water in, and remain low for a few hours. Don't worry about it! it will come back up. Whatever you do, don't try to raise the temperature (when the water finally comes to temp and now you're above your target temp, you'll scorch your chicks. It's much worse to have the temp too high than too low).2. The temperature below the rollers is lower than the temperature at the rollers. If you have a thermostat or hygrometer, put it where you eggs are, not below them. But really it doesn't matter, you don't need a thermostat or hygrometer.3. I recommended below to use a cup with water to humidify the incubator. I still think that's a great option because the depth means fewer refills. However, that only works for small eggs like quail. On larger eggs, the rollers will be spaced further apart, and there will be no room for a cup. Also, to refill the cup you have to take the lid off and let the heat escape. Easier is to use the included water bottle to squirt water in the side holes. The two holes lead to two basins, one small for incubation, one large for lockdown. If you use these, you don't need to worry about measuring humidity of using a towel etc. But, you'll also have to refill more often, because the basins aren't as deep.4. Quail eggs are resilient! You may think you've totally screwed it up, with humidity too high or too low, or you forgot to sanitize, or you did sanitize and your friend says thats bad because it hurts the membrane, or the temprature was this or that. Just calm down and give the eggs a chance.5. They include a spray bottle to sanitize the eggs. I use 50% diluted hydrogen peroxide, but you can get other recipes for sanitizer online. I recommend using it. You don't need to scrub them down, though that probably won't kill them; mainly it'll get your friends off your back because they swear you're ruining their antibiotic membrane. So just spray them, don't scrub them.6. The manual is helpful but seriously lacking so much information. mostly it's just there to tell you how to turn it on and set the temp. They don't mention how or why or when to sanitize or humidify or anything like that. That's OK! you don't need it. You have this comment right here, and a million people online.ORIGINAL REVIEW:I'm incubating quail as we speak, and I full expect them all to die because of the struggle is been to keep a good humidity. But I fully expect next batch to do well. Listen to this advice and you won't need to buy a hygrometer.I bought a hygrometer so I could figure out how to keep things humid enough. Now I have the data, so you don't need to buy the hygrometer.A 6 or 8 ounce cup will keep the humidity around 65% with the vent closed. Add a bit of paper towel, and it'll bring it up to about 70%. That's too high for the first fifteen days. You want to target between 35 and 45%. I found the best way to do that is with the same 6 ounce cup, and the vent open. (I'm at 36% humidity right now).I also tried two damp rags. That took the humidity to 96%. I don't think even the vent could dry the air out fast enough. I'm pretty sure I drowned the baby chicks with that experiment. But that's a great humidity after lock down (day 16 and on).I also found the temperature was low on average. (The heater takes it up to temp, but let's it drop a few tenths of a degree below before turning it back on).So here's the complete formula. Put an 8 ounce cup in with the vent open for the first 15 days (or longer for chicken). During lockdown, close the vent, and add the damp rags in a bowl of water (so they don't dry out). During the entire time, have your temp set at one or maybe two tenths of a degree above your target average.All these humidity numbers are based on an arid climate. You may have to adjust if you live in a swamp.

I just set my first set of Brahma eggs with out being tight 13 fits the instructions could be a little more informative for beginners

It did run efficiently for 18 days. 6 of my 10 quail chicks hatched successfully on days 17-18. Intended to run it until day 20 for the late Hatcher’s but the incubator quit running on day 19. Smells like the motor burnt up. $60 is a little steep for 1x use.