Recommend incubator

[sben451]

Both my Brinsea ECO's have the autoturn cradle. I usually have great hatches on eggs from my hens, shipped eggs have a little less great hatches. I've hatched Welsummers, Buff Orps, EEs, and Guinea eggs in the Brinsea. But I did have 100% hatch rate on shipped eggs on the first batch in my first Brinsea. Just hatched 9 out of 16 BLRW eggs last week (they were shipped).
I used a borrowed styrofoam still-air once and did not have a good hatch. Temp. control and humidity control are much easier IMO using a Brinsea.

 

[latebloomer]

i'm on my first hatch and am using
a hovabator 1602N to which i added
a circulated fan unit

when i first set it up i had it in the wrong location
and predictably had a hard time keeping the
temperatures steady

since i moved it to another room that became
much easier

when i added the fan, it became easier still

i'm at about day twleve

 

[Stevenson]

Well, I was really close to buying the Brinsea 20 ECO, but then ran across a homemade incubator that I had been looking at on BYC for sale on craigslist! I bought this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=34850
I figure I can always buy the Brinsea....and may do that down the road. I got a good deal and I am really pumped to get started!

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

So for these Brinsea incubators...where do you put in the water to keep the humidity up? I see they sell a pump seperately. It seems to be something a lot of people are not buying? I'm going to guess it really isn't worth it when you can just add water as needed? I'm just curious how the humidity works in these then without the pump I see they sell on their site.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

I LOVE my Brinsea Octagon 40. Had it about 8-9 maybe more years. Still works perfectly. Last year I ran it 7 months straight, they year before that too.

I do also have 2 hovabator 1588's and really like those as well. Those are a bit cheaper than the Brinseas.


Brinsea does have a 10% off coupon on their facebook page now.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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There are wells in the bottom of the incubator that you fill up with water. So you just add water as needed.