Automatic Egg Incubator for Sale

What “fully automatic” means on our incubators

An automatic egg incubator does the three jobs a broody hen does, without you standing over it:

• Automatic egg turning. The trays tilt on a timer so the embryo does not stick to the shell membrane. No turning by hand, no missed turns at night.
• Digital temperature control. A sensor and controller switch the heater on and off to hold the set temperature, and a fan spreads the heat so every tray sees the same conditions.
• Built-in humidity control. The controller reads humidity and shows it on the display, so you can see at a glance when the water needs topping up.

These features come standard on every size, from the 360-egg model to the 20,000-egg hatchery machine.

Automatic vs manual incubators

A manual or semi-automatic incubator leaves the turning, and often the humidity, to you. That means turning every egg three to five times a day for 18 days and keeping notes so you do not lose count. Miss turns and the hatch rate drops. With a self-turning egg incubator the machine never forgets, which is why farmers who sell chicks buy automatic machines. Read the full comparison: manual vs automatic incubator.

Which automatic incubator should you buy?

Choose the size you can fill with fertile eggs every batch:

• 360 or 720 eggs for backyard breeders and small farms.
• 1,056 to 2,000 eggs for farms selling day-old chicks every three weeks.
• 2,900 to 6,000 eggs for commercial broiler, layer and indigenous-chicken farms.
• 10,000 or 20,000 eggs for hatcheries.

Use our incubator size guide if you are unsure, or see commercial incubators for the larger machines.

What you still do yourself

Automatic does not mean hands-off for 21 days. You still set good fertile eggs, top up the water, candle the eggs around day 7 and day 14, and switch the machine to hatching settings (turning off, humidity up) for the last three days. Our step-by-step incubator guide covers each of these, and setup training comes with every machine.