Egg Incubator - Incubators for Hatching Eggs - 9 Egg Hatching Incubator - Omnidirectional Constant Temperature Control and Humidity Control Egg Incubator by EZ.SIMPLY

I love these little bators. They keep temp easily as long as the room isn't too hot or cold.1. Regular room temps make it work as intended. If you have a room that is too cold, use the styrofoam it comes with.2. I have to soak the little sponge when I turn. I keep a little cup of water next to them and soak the sponge with I turn the eggs and replace it before the lid goes on.3. To get the device to stop beeping, just hit the LED light button! Easy as pie.Good luck with your hatches!

Tried getting into hatching my own eggs as a friend has an overwhelming supply of fertile eggs. Incubators are a lot more expensive than I remember! So I bought this one thinking it was cheap, simple, but would work for small barely hobby level hatching.TL;DR-There are so, so many problems with this incubator it is absolutely not worth the money. Save yourself the time, effort, and potential heartbreak and get a nicer incubator. It doesn’t keep heat or humidity worth anything, the under lights ‘feature’ is useless, it’s just not worth it.Out of 4 batches of 9 fertile eggs, I have had only 2 hatch.The first batch got maybe halfway through development before dying. This is with following the instructions and some small tips and tricks from my egg supplying friend.Thinking it was human error, tried again with a second batch and was incredibly quick with turning the eggs, thoroughly soaking the sponge, etc. Still trying to follow the instructions. I had maybe 1 egg reach late development before dying, the rest failed halfway through.At this point we started trouble shooting; the sponge you’re supposed to soak twice daily sucks. Later on the wells that you’re supposed to fill with water also suck but we’ll get to that. The sponge doesn’t hold moisture well and yet still manages to get gross towards the bottom quickly. Manually turning the eggs means you have to take the top off, let the heat out essentially, and turn the eggs while the low heat alarm screams at you. Wouldn’t be too big of an issue if the house is warm, and the heating unit is strong enough to get back up to temp quickly. Unfortunately, the heat in this POS isn’t that great at even keeping the temp you set it to, and eggs need it pretty warm to develop and grow properly. Assuming my eggs kept dying because I kept letting all the heat out to turn them.For the third batch of 9 eggs, I insulated the incubator by wrapping a small blanket around it and had eggs develop stronger and farther than they ever had before; they all got to late stage before inevitably failing.Fourth and final batch I was pretty much over trying with this obnoxiously loud paperweight. I had no hope, so essentially neglected the eggs. Kept it insulated, but only occasionally turned the eggs twice, more often only once daily. Ignored the sponge until late in development, absolutely didn’t bother with it.I had 2 infertile eggs get mixed in, so out of 7 fertile I had 2 hatch with this final batch. I candled them about a week before hatch date, realized I actually had viable chicks, and started to fill the little wells with water to make sure it was humid enough for them to hatch safely. 5 remaining eggs all failed mid-late development.I had one chick very healthy and strong, stayed out of the water wells and was compressed enough with the lid on so her toes didn’t get all funky.The second chick did not fair so well. She struggled to get out of the shell, and when she did finally make it out she was all over the place as just hatched chicks are. Almost drowned in the water wells, would flip over and kick hard enough at the lid to lift it slightly. Granted, the lid is not on there securely at all nor is it very heavy. I drained the wells, came back to check on her and she had the lid entirely askew with the low temp sensor screaming away.Her toes came out super crooked after that, and she never thrived. Just passed today and reminded me to leave a review on this junk. If you’re looking for an incubator, just bite the bullet and get one of the nicer ones from a well established brand! Thank god I got my eggs for free, I’d be mad as hell if I bought fertile eggs and put them in this!

I had to play around with the temperature for literally 2 hours before it stabilized where I needed it to. I also had to have it run inside the foam it came in to remain stable. A pain to get going but it does its job.

With my last batch of eggs, I've gotten 100% hatch rate. I usually put eggs under a broody hen, but when it's cold out, I prefer this. It's much safer. Once chicks start hatching & dry off, I transfer them to a Silkie hen, who does all the child-rearing from then on. Glad I bought it. Mama Silkie is very happy.

I just think it isn't right. Lost most of my eggs.

This is a worthless unit, it doesn't tell you the humidity, and it's hard to turn the eggs with the design. THE worst part, it doesn't keep the temp very well so you live hearing beep beep beep beep beep as it is constantly dropping below the set temp - no way to mute the alarm once noticed. Worst purchase ever, went with the smile series after returning and couldn't be happier with the 30 egg one from there which was around the same price for humidity and auto turning and ample room for all the eggs.

Edited i changed my review because customer service reached out to me after reading i was unhappy. The company cares about what their customers actually think.It worked ok. I like the auto turner better. The light for candling isn't very helpful. My biggest problem after the chicks hatch you are supposed to leave them in there for 24hrs don't open the lid cuz it cause problems for the others still trying to hatch. The problem is the baby chick trying to move around will pop the lid off. Must be ready to tape the lid down

The media could not be loaded.  I've hatched 3 healthy chicks so far. Don't wet the sponge soak it