Calling all NEW Brinsea Eco owners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[debilorrah]

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Here what I use to fill the water for any type of incubator. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=427507

You still have to open the Brinsea incubator to use that. I use an old picnic ketchup bottle, which is the same principle.

My point is, what I do NOT like about the Brinsea Eco .... how to add water withOUT opening the Brinsea. I guess I will just have to break down and buy the humidity pump.

I have not had any issues with hatch rates due to having to open the thing. At lockdown, I usually get a good humidity rate for 24 hours then need to open and dump water, which takes all of 5 seconds tops. And the humidity recovers within seconds.

 

[Baralak]

I would like to put my two cents in... Being that I seem to the the male poster child for the Brinsea.

Forced air incubators are basically still air incubators that circulate the air inside by using a fan to force the air not only around the chamber but it also creates a pressure by keeping all of the air in the chamber at a constant temperature therefore allowing air to circulate by pressure instead of thermal inversion. The heat source can be a heating element, resistance wire, or a light bulb. Forced air incubators can recover temperatures and humidity easier because of the air flow of the fan forcing the air over the heating surface then through out the incubator. This heated airflow also creates a positive pressure. Since all of the air inside the incubator is about the same through out, it forces out the cooler air while in the heating mode. When the element cycles off, the air particles cool. This causes a more negative pressure thusly making air to be pulled into the incubator. Humidity is simply controlled by the circulating air, and the surface area of the inside of the incubator and the eggs.

Since the Brisnea Octagon 20 is a forced air incubator, and it has a very small surface area, it is VERY easy to recover temperature and humidity because it has a very compact incubation chamber. The Brisnea Octagon 20 also circulates it by drawing air from the center, and blowing it through the sides down on the eggs evenly through vents.

Yes, it only holds 24 eggs tops.. but it incubates them very well!!

 

[speedy2020]

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Here what I use to fill the water for any type of incubator. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=427507

You still have to open the Brinsea incubator to use that. I use an old picnic ketchup bottle, which is the same principle.

My point is, what I do NOT like about the Brinsea Eco .... how to add water withOUT opening the Brinsea. I guess I will just have to break down and buy the humidity pump.

Kathyinmo,
You didn't read my link. There is no need to open the top. I use the wash bottle to squeeze the water through a drink straw or aquarium tube. Some of the drink straw also allow you to bend and direct where the water go. I am planning to add a piece of styrofoam as floater for the next batch. The purpose of the floater is let me know when the water level.

 

[CDennis]

So lets get the ball rolling, when do we want to start this hatch? Do we want a specific day like Jan 1st or more a week period like the 1st to the 7th. The goal is to make this a good experience and again any Brinsea owners are welcome not just Eco.

 

[PepsNick]

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The only thing is, what about the hatchers that have to order their shipped eggs? If we order them now then they'll get real cold and will probably effect the hatch rate.

 

[cubalaya]

i hatched with the eco 20 last year. the best rate that i have is 78%. the worst was 16 eggs, 4 hatched. we did lose power a couple times on that hatch.
we are going to collect hatching eggs around jan. 10 and do a hatch then.

 

[7L Farm]

I thought yall said the middle of January. I ordered mine yesterday .

 

[kathyinmo]

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You still have to open the Brinsea incubator to use that. I use an old picnic ketchup bottle, which is the same principle.

My point is, what I do NOT like about the Brinsea Eco .... how to add water withOUT opening the Brinsea. I guess I will just have to break down and buy the humidity pump.

Kathyinmo,
You didn't read my link. There is no need to open the top. I use the wash bottle to squeeze the water through a drink straw or aquarium tube. Some of the drink straw also allow you to bend and direct where the water go. I am planning to add a piece of styrofoam as floater for the next batch. The purpose of the floater is let me know when the water level.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63890_water.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63890_floater.jpg

OH, I see! Thanks for drawing it out for me! YES, I am gonna try that! THANK YOU ! !

 

[PepsNick]

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Kathyinmo,
You didn't read my link. There is no need to open the top. I use the wash bottle to squeeze the water through a drink straw or aquarium tube. Some of the drink straw also allow you to bend and direct where the water go. I am planning to add a piece of styrofoam as floater for the next batch. The purpose of the floater is let me know when the water level.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63890_water.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/63890_floater.jpg

OH, I see! Thanks for drawing it out for me! YES, I am gonna try that! THANK YOU ! !

Wipee!

 

[BooBear]

I was gonna wait until after the January Bluebonnet poultry show to get some eggs to stick in mine. It is really tortuous to wait though as it is all setup, brand new, just begging for eggs.

Trying to be good. I want to get either local eggs that I can find or some blue, colombian, buff, pretty much a little of each color of wyandotte eggs from breeders and not hatchery. Was wanting to try with local eggs first before I start buying expensive breeder eggs. (Also, kinda been wanting some Ameraucana eggs just cause I think both the eggs and the chickens are lovely).

Too bad the ECO 20 only holds 24.

But if I really find that I like it; may have more Brinseas in my future.