What incubator do you recommend?

[hysop]

I will be purchasing an incubator today. I like Brinsea since I’ve seen tons of people post pictures of their hatching chicks in them and I thought it was awesome. What is your experience with them? I know everyone has good and bad experiences with everything.

This is the exact name of the one I want to buy today:

Maxi II Eco manual 30 egg incubator

Thanks in advance. If you recommend a different brand I’d also love to hear it. I have a Little Giant still air incubator right now. It worked great my first hatch but has started to go haywire 14 days into my 2nd batch.

 

[Rocky1028]

I love my Nurture Right 360! It's super simple and has great visibility, plus the temp and humidity are spot on and are very reliable. I did notice the Brinsea incubator you're looking at holds 30 eggs; the NR360 only holds 22 so I don't know if that's a deal breaker or not.

 

[rascal66]

I have a Brinsea Ova-Easy and by far, it has been the best investment yet. We also got the humidity pump as an add-on, and I am so happy and impressed with the brand.

Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with other brands or models.. I started with a yellow cheap chinese incubator (no model name) and had a bad experience, with only 1/3 eggs ever hatching while others died in the shell.

I'd like to think that their smaller models are just as good, but they are pretty pricey. Maybe other brands are as good if not better, but I wouldn't know!

 

[hysop]

I love my Nurture Right 360! It's super simple and has great visibility, plus the temp and humidity are spot on and are very reliable. I did notice the Brinsea incubator you're looking at holds 30 eggs; the NR360 only holds 22 so I don't know if that's a deal breaker or not.

You're the second person to recommend Nurture Right 360. 22 eggs is perfect. I just didn’t like that Brinsea only has up to 14 in automatic turner so I was looking at their manual one that held more.

Did you get yours through Amazon or some other retailer?

 

[Rocky1028]

I got mine from Tractor Supply only because I needed it the same day (DIY incubator issues), otherwise I would have gotten from Amazon since it was cheaper.

 

[hysop]

I got mine from Tractor Supply only because I needed it the same day (DIY incubator issues), otherwise I would have gotten from Amazon since it was cheaper.

Okay thanks! Yeah I was just looking at both prices. If TSC has it in stock I don’t mind paying extra but if not, then Amazon it is.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I will be purchasing an incubator today. I like Brinsea since I’ve seen tons of people post pictures of their hatching chicks in them and I thought it was awesome. What is your experience with them? I know everyone has good and bad experiences with everything.

This is the exact name of the one I want to buy today:

Maxi II Eco manual 30 egg incubator

Thanks in advance. If you recommend a different brand I’d also love to hear it. I have a Little Giant still air incubator right now. It worked great my first hatch but has started to go haywire 14 days into my 2nd batch.

I just got one, I have my heritage turkey eggs in it right now. So I can't yet recommend it long term, I haven't been going by the included thermometer, you'll need an additional thermometer.

 

[hysop]

My husband went to TSC and they had it in stock so he went ahead and bought it. We’ll see how my eggs do in 7 days. Thank you all for replying.

Update** I ended up having my first 100% hatch rate! I love this incubator!