Farm Innovators 2100 Heated Still Air Incubator for 4 Dozen Eggs with Built in Hygrometer, Solid State Circuitry, and 2 Large Viewing Windows, White

Had to order this in a hurry for a replacement of other brand, but will definitely use this brand from here on out. Great unit and keeps temp/humidity maintained.

Just tried it for the first time, none of my 8 eggs hatched. So not sure if it was me of because the still air had different tempature in places.

Not very impressed with the thermostat willmstay stable for days then spike up or down a couple of degrees for no reason

Seems to be working. Won't know how good for a couple weeks yet

This is a really great incubator. This was our first time incubating eggs and I read all kinds of reviews everywhere. This one seemed to have the best reviews (or at least the least bad reviews!) and it really did not disappoint for the price! However, the temperature and humidity readers can be very finicky sometimes. We left one of the red plugs in the lid for most of the incubation process and took them both out during hatches. Leaving one in really helped stabilize the humidity, as well as putting a slightly damp cloth in the bottom of it instead of trying to just use straight water. I also highly suggest getting a second thermometer that has humidity on it as well (I got a really nice one for $10 at Walmart). We had great success with our hatches and had around 35-40 duck eggs in this thing at one point! It is a great size and a really great product. I also suggest getting something to lay down on the bottom of the incubator where the eggs will be sitting. It is just a metal tray, so I purchased a roll of the foam kitchen drawer liner material from Walmart as well. That helped them to not roll around and I felt it also helped them from possibly cracking against the metal tray. My last piece of advice is make sure all your eggs are going to hatch at or around the same time... we had our eggs hatching at different days for about 2-3 weeks, and it became extremely dirty and smelly inside the incubator, but we weren't able to clean it until they all finished hatching. It is just a Styrofoam incubator, so hopefully it will come clean easily! I highly recommend this product! And if it is your first time incubating ducks/chickens/etc., join the online forum BackYardChickens to get even more advice on incubating and hatching!

OK, so here is my Hatching Experience. First off this was my first time trying to hatch baby chicks. I did all the research and read everything and watched U-tube videos till I thought my eyes would bug out. The fact is, no amount of input can count against just plain old experience. That having been said: I started with 41 eggs in the incubator on March 24th. Prior to stating my first clutch I tested the equipment by running it for about a week and everything worked fine. The temp was right at 99.5 degrees and the humidity showed 60%. I used two thermometers placed on both insides of the unit and they seemed to show the same temp as the digital read out. I have Americana chickens so it only took about a week to collect enough eggs for this first clutch. Before placing the eggs in the incubator we used a terrycloth towel barely damped with anti-bacterial cleaner and wiped them again with a clean dry towel. We placed all the eggs in the auto egg turner (a must have item) and off we went. For the first 5 days after setting the eggs the humidity seemed to be out of control. It was as high as 88% but would also hover at 80%. We had the incubator in a spare bedroom with very little sun light and the room temp and humidity reading on an external unit stayed constant. Once the humidity finally leveled off at 60% we found we didn't have to add water as the instruction say but about every 3rd day. We also removed both red caps and that seemed to stabilize the humidity issue. After the first week we candled several eggs but found it difficult to identify if embryos were developing or not. Maybe due to inexperience. On the 14th day we candled 21 eggs and found all showed little peeps moving around inside. It was a wonderful experience for my daughter and myself. On the 18th day I removed the eggs for the auto turner and added paper towels around the edges of the wire grid so as to wet them to increase the humidity level to 80%. All went well. On the 20th day the first chick hatched but I noticed the plastic viewing window had started to buckle at all four corners. Droplets of water soon started to accumulate around the corners below the digital read out unit. We quickly covered both ends of the viewing window with towels and from the night of the 20th day and during the 21st day we hatched 16 chicks. We were elated but concerned because we could see 5 eggs with pip holes and little tiny beaks sticking out. We had read several different articles urging you to no interfere with the hatching process so we didn't. To our dismay all five of those eggs didn't fully hatch. It was not pretty seeing the little beaks sticking out of the egg and the little chick dead inside. We now, in retrospect, feel we could have aided the hatchings in some manner. The 16 were all that hatched. After the 22nd day with no ongoing activity, we opened the leftover eggs that didn't hatch and found all but 3 had fully developed chicks inside. To us that means we could have hatched 38 of 41 eggs. Upon reflection we have come up with the root of our problem... PLEASE TAKE NOTE...the heating unit on this model is located basically at the top of the viewing window. When we added water or candled the eggs we always returned the lit to the same position, i.e. heating unit up. This unit being a still air unit, we surmise, that was our mistake. We feel if we had replaced the lid in variable positions, say North, South, East, West several times a day we would have had a much better hatch rate than 39%. We observed the eggs at the bottom of the viewing window never hatched. It seems to us the eggs at the top closest to the heating element mostly all hatched. By rotating the lid of this unit during the 21 days we feel the heat would have been more evenly distributed and we would have had much better success. We also feel maybe this next clutch we will adjust the temp to 101 degrees and will use some silicone caulk to seal the corners that buckled. This unit is a very inexpensive item but we found it to be satisfactory especially for the price. It cleaned up easily and we are just about ready to run our second clutch. Do go back and reread "PLEASE TAKE NOTE" above. We feel this is a very important aspect to a successful hatch. Good Luck!!!

Arrived in good time with instructions that were easy to read and follow. It worked well but would suggest purchasing egg turner. Was able to hatch 14 of 28 first time around but sure it wasn't he machine but lack of proper fertilization. Very satisfied

Works Ok, a little hard to regulate temperature

Made of styrofoam, which is good insulation material, but the heating element was a little out of place and must have burned some of the styrofoam because it gave off a bad smell. The thermometers had a difference of about 7 degrees Fahrenheit... I decided to go with the one you place inside (which was crudely put together) because it was higher, but it was also hard to read because some of the alcohol inside (or whatever it is) was divided, so I had to add two readings which probably made it less accurate. The knob was also not working properly, I think. It would only turn on the red light and heating element 4/5ths of the way on the clockwise turn. I followed the directions step-by-step, but when I turned the knob back at 100 degrees F and left the incubator alone, the temperature fell to 85-90 degrees... I did this all in a room where the temperature was kept to a constant 72 degrees. I thought about getting an infrared thermometer to use with the incubator, but I don't think it's worth it because the incubator keeps changing temperature (I can't stay with it 24/7). I am returning this item and am looking for other incubators. My suggestion: don't waste your time on this -- I bought this because of the other reviews, but I'm guessing these incubators have reliability issues (probably because of the cheap construction).