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

Works great. Love it

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.

I hatched my 3rd clutch of chicken eggs (largefowl Ameraucana) in this incubator. The automatic turner can hold up to 9 eggs, but being the aspiring (and new) chicken breeder I am, I wanted more. 9 is great if you're a beginner, and automatic turning is great if you don't have the time. But I do not mind hand-turning, which means I was able to fit 12 (and then 13 - we'll get to that later) large chicken eggs in it comfortably. Note, I have a second set of eggs in the incubator, I was able to fit 17 with a large third-party thermometer in there that probably took up the space for about 3 eggs. I think you could fit 18 max, and it would be a bit of a tight fit, but I believe enough room for the chicks to hatch. I don't know that I would advise this, though! Anyway, back to my original point: PLEASE NOTE, I cannot speak for the egg turner, as I have not and do not intend to use it. Keep that in mind while you continue reading.Ok, I love this incubator. My third hatch, I had a 75% hatch rate! The two remaining chicks that did not hatch, I believe were due to self-errors of humidity control. Now, let's go through the pros and cons.PROS: 1.This was super easy to use. Put your tray in, plug the incubator in, set your temperature, add your water, and set your eggs! No real assembly. Tip: if you are going to manually turn like me, I recommend using the second "hatching tray". It is much lower to the incubator's floor, in comparison to the first tray, whose only purpose is to bring the height of the eggs close enough to the top of the machine so that the egg turner can work. I used the first, and then lazily did not switch to the second, because who has time to move out-and-then-in 12 eggs? The chicks were a little too close to the ceiling of the bator, but thankfully the manufacturer put a grate to protect the chicks from the heating unit, and vice-versa!2. Plastic, which means easy cleaning!3. Small and light weight, which means I can have it in my office without it taking up too much space.4. Although it's small, it holds a decent amount of eggs for a beginner. 9 eggs is great, but it can also be 12 eggs!5. The manual is pretty straight forward in my opinion, the only real thing you have to do it place the grate correctly and match up the egg-turner to the metal rod from the top of the bator.CONS: 1. The incubator trays are a slick plastic, and seem to be on a tilt. When chicks hatch, they need a textured surface to walk on, as they need to get their footing and begin exercising their baby legs! If they cannot get their footing, they can develope spraddle leg, or splayed legs. This will mean the chick is a temporary "special needs" chick, and she will need some focused attention and spraddle-leg remedy knowlege from you! With my second clutch, I put down a single paper towel with holes in it, to allow the water in the bottom of the incubator to evaporate and rise.2. The setup for humidity is not a great one. This was especially a con for my situation, which was that I had an incubator go haywire and kill all but one of my eggs. I placed that last egg in this bator, and it was about 5 days behind the eggs already in it. The reason this is such a con for a staggered hatch is that, when the first chicks hatch, they leave nasty gunk in the water, especially if you leave them in there for a while so as to not disturb the humidity for the unhatched chicks. If the waste from the egg and chicks is allowed to sit long enough, it can cause a nasty bacteria overgrowth, which can lead to infection and fatality of your still-developing embryos. Fortunately, this did not happen for me, the chick hatched out fine 5 days later. I also took out my chicks no later than 24 hours post-hatch.3. The temperature only displays celsius. Not a huge deal, but it'd be nice to just know the temp without converting!4. This thing had a bit of a smell the first time I fired it up. It went away after about 24 hours. Hopefully nothing too bad!5. Bator is pretty sensitive to humidity. I noticed it doesn't take much water at all the get the incubator to the right temp. Now, I do live in Georgia, and it is rainy on/off currently, but even with that, it could fluctuate to as low as 30%, and then when adding a small amount of water it jumps to 60%. (This is based off of my third party thermometer, an Acurite wireless indoor/outdoor thermometer/hygrometer combo)Final thoughts: Overall, I really like this incubator! It worked great for its intended purpose. A few cons that can be solved by adjusting somethings within the bator, and not setting up embryos for infection by avoiding staggered hatches in this bator. I don't like that it gets the water so nasty, perhaps a third, separator tray could be added to catch egg/chick waste, while keeping water clean. I am still very happy with this purchase, the price point is fantastic for what it is. I'm always leary to buy from unheard of manufacturers for an incubator, but this brand impressed me!

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.