*Is this Incubator good?*

I've never heard anything about those except bad, bad, bad. Many a broken-hearted kid waiting 21 days for nothing. I have never used one however.

 

"Keep in mind this is a very small starter unit and is not intended for someone wanting to repeatedly hatch eggs at a high hatch rate." Doesn't inspire much confidence. Even if I only incubated once, with three eggs, I'd be wanting a high hatch rate! Three eggs doesn't leave much room for error.

 

Well, for $20 it's maybe worth a try. But what Time-Out says is right - if you're only going to get four eggs in it you'd want to know that they'll all hatch! So maybe this unit would be okay for hatching your own eggs, if you already knew what you were doing with incubation, but I wouldn't want to use it if I was a total newbie, and I definitely wouldn't want to put shipped eggs in it. If you're needing to incubate on a tight budget, have a look at some of the plans for home made incubators. Basically you can do it with just a styrofoam box, a couple of lightbulbs and a thermostat. And you'll be able to incubate a LOT more than just four eggs...

 

As a consumer, we try to frugally purchase used. If purchased items usable time with us is up it's resold.

Looking at a 4 egg incubator one must ask:
If I enjoy hatching would I reuse this one or purchase bigger?
If this is one time hatching can I resell this unit?

This incubator you'll reuse or can be resold in a heart beat. Presently it's very reasonable with one bidder.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-Genesi...642?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bea1129a

 

I ordered this and it will not hatch out eggs,I found if you have an egg that has a day or two left before hatch it will work for that.I have had broodies that leave the last eggs to go off with their babies and the egg is about ready to hatch and have used it for that and it worked,I let a friend use it to hatch out fertile silkie eggs and it did not work for them.

 

you get what you pay for I guess

 

Don't waste your money on this incubator or the shipping. My sister bought me one for Christmas 4 years ago and all it did was cook the eggs. We fiddled with various configurations of aluminum foil inside trying to get it to hold a steady temperature and it failed utterly. You will be disappointed if you spend even twenty bucks on it. I saved up and bought a Brinsea with the automatic turner and have had excellent results with it. If you spend $60 on special shipped eggs (shipping included there), would you trust a $20 incubator to hatch them?

 

I agree save your money..