Brinsea mini eco or mini advanced

[annanimal]

I want to get an incubator by Brinsea and i dont know which one to pick the eco or the advanced i mean the eco is cheaper but the advanced has more choices. If anyone has any of these brinsea incubators can you please tell me how they are? Thanks in advance!!

 

[thepouts]

I'm looking at both of these also. Ill be interested to read replies

 

[3BirdGirlz]

I have the mini advanced. BUT, I have been getting mostly shipped eggs and when some have funky air cells I can't lay them down...I keep them in an egg carton and hand turn. And with some of the duck eggs I incubate they don't do well in an auto turner, so once again I hand turned. Incubated peacock eggs, they were too large for rhe auto turner. I have chicken eggs in it right now and out of the past 3 months this is the first time I used the auto turner! It is nice. I have since bought the brinsea 20 Eco because i seem to hand turn anyways and it is cheaper

 

[annanimal]

Ok thanks!! That helped a lot.One more question is it hard to remember to turn the eggs??

 

[3BirdGirlz]

No...at least 3x day....sometimes I did 5 .
Odd # times is best so they don't rest in the same place overnight for the longest amount of hrs. Sometimes I forgot, but still had good hatches. It doesn't have to be exact every certain amt of hrs...just as long as they get turned.

 

[annanimal]

Yeah i read all about turning the eggs in the learning center. Do you know if more chicks hatch in an incubator or under a hen? Because my hens always go broody but they only hatch 2 or 3 chicks out of 11-15 eggs depending on the size of the chicken, all the eggs are fertile but there are just dead chicks in them and i dont know why so i am going to get the incubator so that i can get more chicks to give the hen!! Will that work??

 

[3BirdGirlz]

I have had eggs under a broody and then I take them and put them in the incubator the last 3 days...hatched good. But I've also started eggs in the incubator and have had good success. I don't let my hen raise chicks because I'd have to really alter the pen so chicks couldn't get out.

 

[annanimal]

Oh ok, thanks for the info!!

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Oh ok, thanks for the info!!

Oh, and I've seen people here hatch their eggs in an incubator and then give the chicks to the hen to raise. Just sneak them under her at night and then keep an eye on her that she accepts them. If you have a good gen whose raised chicks in the past I'm sure it'll work again.

 

[annanimal]

Yeah most of my broody hens are very gentle with their chicks and they accept new ones to, i have tried it. Thank you for your time.