opinions on brinsea 20 eco

[keesmom]

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I had similar problems with the thermometer. There was quite a difference between the one supplied and my Walmart thermometer.

Pluses - heats up fast. I don't worry about opening it briefly because it takes no time at all to warm up again. Very easy to clean. So much easier than the styrofoam ones. I am surprised at the amount of chick fuzz that winds up near the top.

Minuses - Capacity. I got used to staggered hatches in my LGs (one for incubating, one for hatching). I had up to 60 eggs at a time between the 2. It's much harder, or impossible, to do in the Brinsea.

I will say just because you have a Brinsea it doesn't mean you'll have excellent hatches each time. I've tried 3 batches of shipped eggs in mine (a total of 40 eggs) - none hatched. I did get 10 out of 14 on some local ones.

-Cindy in MA

 

[snoblossom]

I sell Brinsea here in Alaska, the Octagon ECO is my most popular, because of the price. I personally have the Octagon Advance and love it, but my customers that have the ECO love theirs and have sold their friends on them too. In my Octagon, I had 14 local eggs, all 14 hatched, I have bought eggs from BYC and from EBay and not had as good a hatch, but every egg that was going to hatch did. When I broke open the unhatched eggs, they were all just eggs, no blood rings or anything like that.
Good luck, they deliver rather quickly, and they are a good company.

 

[embkm]

Thanks for the pros and cons Cindy.

Easy to clean, easy to get temps and humidity stable= just what I am looking for!

For me, the fact that it only holds 2 dozen eggs is a plus. I live in a subdivision and don't want to get too overwhelmed. I just really want something that works well. My first batch of eggs, I set 36 and had 4 hatch... my last set had 29 start developing and only 5 made it. These were my eggs. Just test hatches for sure, but I am so glad I didn't have any expensive eggs in there.

I may try some shipped eggs (and I know they are always at risk with the PO), but this will mostly be for my EE's and OEGB eggs. I was hoping my future-broody-mama silkie would take over incubating duties, but she turned out to be a he... hence the bator search.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I love my brinsea eco 20! I can't compare it to anything else, but I love the fact that it is easy to clean, has a fan, easy to "turn " the eggs. I have had good hatch rates with it, the temp keeps steady. I wish it had a a hygrometer,but even without one, I've had good hatchrates.

 

[keesmom]

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Then the Brinsea ECO is what you're looking for. Set it and forget it.

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I hate it when that happens.

I had no problems hatching local eggs. Just the shipped ones. Even if the eggs start to develop, sometimes I think the traveling and rough shipment just does something to them and they don't hatch. But then I've had some great hatches with shipped eggs, so who knows.

Good luck!

-Cindy

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Hi!
Me and a good friend had put our money together and bought one. I personaly think its a great incubator! All you really have to do is put water for the humidity. I am also in Alaska and my friend and i both got ours from snoblossom (posted earlier). I would recommend Brinsea.

 

[KyBlue]

I love mine! I hatched 26 out of 30 bantam eggs in my school classroom this spring, which is not the ideal setting to incubate eggs. Temps stayed very stable and I love the easy clean up.