Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator for Hatching Chicks, Holds 12-22 Eggs, Automatic Turner with Temperature and Humidity Control, 360 Degree View with Clear Window, Incubator for Chickens

This is hands down the best egg incubator I’ve used. I’ve successfully incubated both chicken and quail eggs with it, and it has worked great every time. The unit is very durable and has held up to heavy, repeated use. I really love the appearance of this incubator, especially the clear top. Being able to watch the chicks hatch without opening it is amazing and helps keep the environment stable. The size is also perfect—not too large, not too small—and easy to manage. It maintains a consistent temperature and keeps the chicks warm while they dry off after hatching, which is so important for their health. I’ve used one incubator so much that it eventually fried from overuse, and I didn’t hesitate to order another one because I liked it that much. Overall, it’s reliable, easy to use, and produces great results. I would absolutely recommend this incubator to anyone incubating chickens or quail.

This incubator is simple to set up and does a great job keeping the temperature and humidity steady. The automatic turner works well, and I really like the clear 360° window — it makes it easy to check on the eggs without opening the lid. I had a good hatch rate, and it’s perfect for small batches of 12–22 eggs.

If you are struggling to find a good incubator for higher altitude let me save you alot of time and money--> this is the best you're gonna get...we tried 4 different ones and this had the highest % hatch by more than double all previous incubators. If you don't live at high altitude you will probably get close to 100% success rate (on fertilized eggs).

This is constantly being hailed as one of the best incubators in its class, and yet in my vast experience (been incubating birds of all kinds since I was a kid raised on farm) it is one of the worst I’ve EVER used. The data doesn't lie. Take a look at the data I pulled from less than one day. This data is from, in my opinion, the most top of line model of Govee thermometer/hygrometer. It’s what I use in all my hatches now and it has never failed me. The picture speaks volumes. Because I know people will ask, yes this thermo-hygrometer is calibrated correctly. AND perhaps the WORST part is that these temps were recorded after I’d had even worse numbers and started remediation. This incubator was put into a closet with stable temps/no drafts. It was put inside of a sterlite tub to ensure 100% that there were no drafts, and it was covered with a thick towel. That’s correct, all of those “tricks” and the temperatures were still this unreliable. Take a look at the fluctuations! It’s set at 100 always, and goes from 97-102 throughout a day!! To me, that is the epitome of terrible quality. As you can see, these dips and rises are in increments, and that is because the thermo-hygrometer is turning with the egg turner. Therefore, I can safely deduce that this incubator has severe cold and hot spots that are lethal to the eggs that incubate in that area. It’s such a relatively small incubator that this type of inconsistency should never happen. Don’t even get me started on how bad it is at maintaining humidity. Over the years, I’ve used everything from homemade incubators, to cheap $50 incubators, to top of the line cabinet incubators. Most have their advantages and disadvantages, but I’ve never seen fluctuations like this. It’s atrocious. This will absolutely ruin your hatch.

I have some mixed feelings about the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator. Since ordering and receiving this incubator, I have run two batches of chicken eggs through it and achieved around an 80% hatch rate. I think that a lot of this better hatch rate has to do with the unit stability keeping the temperature and humidity within the desired limits. The unit is very straightforward to set up and get operational. The instructions are well written and essentially more or less in a poster form type presentation that is easy to read from just a glance. Cleaning the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator isn't to difficult, but it should be noted that the plastic construction seems to stain easily, especially in the water reservoirs. I think some of this has to do with our particular water which is very hard and can leave a scaly buildup. I think it is very crucial to try and keep the unit as clean as possible at all times to prevent unsanitary conditions from getting started. The primary issues I have with the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator don't necessarily impede the operation of the unit itself, but make the handling of the unit top cover which contains the brains of the unit. It is a dome type top that isn't very easy to handle simply because there are no handles designed into the unit to begin with. I find it a bit challenging to get the cover top to properly seat without a little wiggling it into place. But the removing of the top cover itself is challenging and without something to really grab onto, I always get the feeling that I might drop the cover and destroy at least a few eggs in the process. So in my opinion it is imperative to get very comfortable removing and replacing the cover a few times before getting started with your first batch. The overall operation of the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator appears to be very dependable and the control panel features I find pretty easy to understand and use. With the control portion of the unit being built into the top cover, it makes viewing all the eggs at once a little difficult to view without entirely removing the top cover. Despite a few obvious small issues, the hatch rates I've had so far are great enough to not rate the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator any lower than 4 stars. The price point of the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator seems substantially higher than similar models I've seen. But again, the final hatch rate is what is ultimately important to me. There are other incubator units that I've seen and/or used that appear to be "knockoff" models as they look nearly identical in design to the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator. I think that some of these knockoffs may actually be the same design, but are likely to use lesser quality parts to keep their prices lower than the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator. And that's where paying attention to product ratings is important for comparison. The Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator ratings far outshine the ratings many of the less expensive incubators are priced at, and the rating comments confirm my feelings that the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator is simply better made and is likely to long outlast the other similar lower priced units. So my final conclusion is that the Manna Pro Harris Farms Nurture Right Egg Incubator is a good product that I would recommend to fellow poultry hatching enthusiasts. Four stars.

I absolutely love this incubator! I would have given it 6 stars if i could! And here's why.........I did quite a bit of studying and research on incubators in general and knew I didn't want the type that you had to use the Styrofoam packaging to help keep temperatures, and I wanted the eggs to roll, not just rock back and forth like those cheaper ones at farm stores. I always came back to this one but hesitated because of the price, but my husband told me to go ahead and buy it. BOY am I ever so glad I did!!! It is so easy to set-up and I am truly astounded with my success rate of live hatchlings!! First time using the Manna incubator, I only put in 12 chicken eggs. (Now keep in mind I have NEVER used an incubator of any type, ever....so this was my virgin run so to speak.) I love the automatic countdown timer, that is so much easier than trying to keep track on a calendar. When day 19 arrives, which for chickens, is when the Lock-down starts, the egg roller stops turning automatically (youll see that light turn off on top) and thats when you remove the turning tray. The candling light is great! Definitely bright enough to see what you need to see whats going on inside the shells. (Darker/colored shells are more difficult, but the air sack is easily spotted, and the light even turs itself off after 5 minutes. I did invest in a small thermometer/ hydrometer that fit perfectly in the center of the turning tray without inhibiting the turning of the eggs, mostly to monitor how accurate the temperature and humidity was from the top to the egg level. And it was within .5° and about spot on for humidity, so I adjusted the temperature up between. 5 to 1 degree. (Now this works for my kitchen due to my household temperature, yours very well could vary. But I definitely recommend purchasing the additional thermometer. ) Adding water was not complicated nor "labor-intensive", once A side is filled, it was simple to add more when needed, for me it was as easy as looking at the little area that you add the water from the exterior, usually 2x per 24 hours. The success rate I've had, as I said has been phenomenal! 11 live hatches out of 12 1st run. 2nd time I got to work with reloading with 20 hen eggs, to which I got 18 live chicks!! I currently have a full 21 and down to day 12 on the countdown timer, so we'll see how many hatch this time! I absolutely 💯% recommend this incubator to anyone who is interested in trying to hatch their own flock!

I love this incubator. So much so I'm thinking of getting another one. It is worth your money. Very easy to use. And a good sizer for someone starting out.

Smaller Silkie chicken eggs work as long as you face the smaller pointy ends inward. The turning process scared the begivies outta me at first because it turns so fast but after I candled them on day 7 and put them back in a more evenly spread out and with pointy ends facing inwards, the spin is less spastic and is now perfect! ! Before this, the eggs were spinning sideways and were getting stuck upside-down but luckily none broke 😄 PROS: I also love that I don’t have to open the incubator to add water!! The water slot is on the outside! Don’t have to turn the eggs! I’d prefer it to turn slower but it actually works! This incubator actually shows humidity! It’s large and will be very nice and easy to watch chicks hatch! Incubation lockdown will be a breeze! Remember that 3 days before they hatch: you gotta take the turning trey out, put soft shelf liner on the bottom, and uncover and fill the other water trey! It keeps track of incubation lockdown so you potentially don’t have to take the spinning trey out(but I won’t take my chances) CONS hard to open the incubator by myself so I have someone else hold the top for me because it’s bigger than my other incubators. Hard to place the lid back on: it takes a lot of careful fiddling to get the top back on correctly. It has a candling light on top but it doesn’t really work: the light light up the entire incubator bottom so I just end up getting blinded. It’s fine because a small flashlight I cup between my hands in a pitch dark room does the trick! Later review? When the eggs hatch I’ll come back and give it my final review because this product can’t be rated fairly until all of my 17 eggs are hatched!