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★★★★★
Set it and forget it!
Before purchasing an incubator, I researched my little heart out. There are so many different ones to choose from and so many different options. As my husband and I both work nearly the same shift each day, we were looking for something more along the lines of "set it and forget it" as we don't have the time to be home rotating the eggs as much as they need. That is exactly what this was! The egg turner works perfectly and like others have said, it turns VERY slowly throughout the entire day, so of course you're not going to see the eggs turning unless you sit there and stare for 24 hours straight. You can hear it turning inside. The top of the incubator is pretty self explanatory. There is a button to set the temperature and one to see the current temperature. The temperature is in Celsius, however you can easily research what temperature you need it to be set at in Celsius very easily. The 100 ML it suggests you add to the bottom for humidity, is not nearly enough. I did what another suggested and added what I felt was necessary (which was about 1 cup). I DID NOT use a hygrometer to measure the humidity in the bator. I literally put 9 chicken eggs in the incubator in the auto egg turner crate, 1 c water in the bottom, set the temp to 37.5 degrees Celsius, put the lid one while making sure the auto turner was in the slot to properly rotate the eggs throughout the day and let it do its thing! I checked every other day to make sure there was still water in the bottom for humidity and added it when necessary. Day 14 we candled the eggs to make sure all were growing and had 3 that had never been fertilized so we cracked them open to make sure and tossed them. Day 18 I put the bator on "lockdown".. We hatched 1 chicken early on day 19 and 3 more on day 20. The remaining 2 hatched on day 21. I'm very happy with this incubator as we had a 100% hatch rate considering 3 had never been fertilized. If you're having troubles with this incubator, like others have suggested I would say your eggs were never fertilized to begin with. I would highly recommend this product to anyone!
December 2016 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase
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