anyone use a Brinsea Mini Advance fully digital 7 egg incubator?

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I have one but it's really too new to form much of an opinion on it to be honest - I have my first clutch of eggs in it at the moment.

The design is very smart, it looks to perform well (temperature stability and turning seem fine right now- the software that underlies the controls/programability is well done.

Inititial observations...

The fan runs a little noisily and with a variable speed
The Day countdown is puzzling me (my countdown went down by a day after just 19 hrs use) but I did suffer a powercut
The Water reservoir is small - will need topping up frequently.
My Hen Eggs (63g-69g, circumference 140mm) are fairly close to the upper limit of what it'll take.


Happy to answer any questions you might have!
 
A couple of pics to illustrate.

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and the rotation tray
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cool! Thanks for sharing Belle and good luck with your first hatch! Please keep us posted. I still don't really understand how it rotates the eggs...but that is ok.
When are they due to hatch?


My BF wanted to get me that one because he said it looked like a popcorn maker! Then he said, "that's where they get popcorn chicken from!"
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They're due any time after the 29th. The cockerel we have with our hens has a fairly poor record for fertility. Only 6 out of the last batch of 20 eggs that we'd tried came to anything (we had them under surrogate mothers as our hens have never gone broody).

Here's the father - he's quite handsome.
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The brinsea incubator rotates the egg by running a small geared motor that engages against the toothed disc that you can see above. The eggs sit on this tray and as they contact the bottom of the incubator through holes in the tray they're slowly pushed along.

The rotation duration is programmable based on the circumference of the eggs.
 
Don't meen to hi-jack this post but just wondering what kind of rooster that is in Bellebouche's post. My mother-in-law in Sweden has one that looks very similar to yours.
 
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Golden Brahma.

He's woefully short sighted, thuds around when he runs. He's twice the size of any of our hens and a little unlucky in love. He's as placid as can be with a great temperament. We have a pair of Toulouse Geese in the paddock with him and when necessary he puts them in check.

I'll be thrilled if he gets some offspring here.
 
Ten days and counting and on candling all 7 eggs appearing to be on track.

Couple of observations about the Brinsea Mini Advance after running it for a short spell..

The motor that drives the egg rotating platen appears to have undergone some kind of 'bedding in' process... it's functional but sounding much much louder than when we first started. The platter rotates freely and is not obstructed/stuck... it's just that the motor has changed pitch. The housing for this motor is largely outside the main dome of the incubator and as such it's at a lower temperature... and this is where all the condensation falls within the unit - this might be the issue, time will tell.

Brinsea give some guidance on weighing your eggs and plotting the weight loss over time as the best guide for monitoring the humidty. I only have scales that are accurate to 1g so I need to invest in a much more accurate set but even on the data I've gathered I'm seeing a much more accelerated weight loss that I can't compensate for by increasing the humidty.

I'm not using the largest chicken eggs (my largest egg in this clutch was 69g, we have had them up to 84g) but they're right on the limit of what the incubator will hold. We've noticed that one or two eggs 'pinch' when they rotate so the rotation is not consistent - I'll pick skinnier eggs next time.

Rotation should stop on the 27th some time, due date is the 29th
 
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