Reviews by I Love Layers

I keep Large Fowl Cochins
This is the best bird for any kind of chicken keeping setting. While I only have cochins for showing they are the best. They are very calm birds, my younger sister showed one of mine in Showmanship for her first time and she got Reserve with her. They lay very well, better then any of my other breeds. They also get along very well with any other chicken. They are extremely cold hardy also, which is a main reason I like them due to my climate also.
And they are very beautify birds

I absolutely hate them!!
I got them for hatching eggs, never went broody in 2 years.

I was fine with them not going broody as they turned out smaller then expected. But they lay probably 50 eggs a year each not even. The rooster is aggressive and obnoxious. The hens have killed chicks and constantly make noise and chase the other hens around.

Never again will I get silkies

Like I said above, lay very large eggs one year. They getting so big I'm afraid ones going to break in the vent

I owned this incubator for 2 weeks before it broke, in the middle of a hatch.
I set the temperature and it never remained consistent, humidity was horrible!!!!

I ordered this incubator in early March 2015 so that I could hatch out some ducklings, and eventually hatch some chicks.
The incubator arrived within a few days, no damage done to it, and in good condition. I immediately put it together, the setup took less then 10 minutes. I turned it on, and it was already set to the temperature I needed!
I then turned it off and collected duck eggs for the next few days, I turned the incubator on 4 hours before I placed the eggs. It had perfect humidity and temperature.
I set 15 eggs all together, 2 were not fertilized, so I was down to 13.
Surprisingly for my first ever incubator hatch, all 13 remaining eggs hatched, and I did not have to help a single bird!!

I used it once this year when one of my ducks sitting on 7 eggs was killed, I was away and did not know until 18 hours after she was killed(approximated time). So I started up the incubator and it was at the right temperature and humidity in 10 minutes. I put them in expecting not a single one to hatch, or have lots of troubles. On day 27 there were a few pips. Day 28 three hatched, on day 29 they were struggling so I helped the remaining 4 a little bit. They all hatched, and lived!!


I have had nothing but good experience with this incubator, it does cost a pretty penny, but it makes more sense to spend money on something that will last, and works well, rather then something that will only last a little while and doesn't work well.

Amazing birds will definitely get more