I am really impressed with my Brinsea incubator. I love its compact size, versatility, how easy it is to operate and keep clean, the viewability, and the various digital control settings.
I had my first and very successful hatch out of it just under three weeks ago and this was despite a 30-hour power-cut on incubation days 9-10 - I put the incubator directly on the warm hearth stones while I kept the fire ticking over for heating and hot water, kept a hot water bottle topped up every few hours and draped over the incubator lid, and then covered the whole lot with a down jacket ... and this way I managed to keep the internal temperature pretty consistently at about 30ºC until the power was restored. I thought for sure that my eggs would have died, but I candled them after a couple of days and all but two showed signs of life and come hatch time 12 out of the remaining 17 eggs hatched successfully and produced very healthy and thriving chicks. I put that success largely down to incubator design, so, well worth the extra dollars spent for a top-quality product I say! I would certainly buy a Brinsea again.

Appleton's are so great to deal with. Anytime I have a question, they take the time to share their wealth of knowledge. This incubator has turned out to be my best yet. I have just had my first successful hatch and found the incubator easy to use and great quality. The only thing I would note is that it makes quite a noise when it turns the eggs, almost like an alarm. But depending where the incubator is set up it's not a biggy.

A good machine like my old one but I prefer the turning disc of my old one.
The large eggs fit much better on it and keeps them from touching the canopy

We currently have eggs in the incubator due to hatch on the 27 Nov, going well will give you an update when hatched

Hello Fiona, I just thought I would follow up. My first trial was with Quails and about half successful, I think with the eggs not being turned properly for the first 6 days was not good at all. the next batch I did with chook eggs and I didn’t use the egg disk because I had 30 eggs to fit in their so did them by hand, about 70% success. I am now on my third batch and came up against a bit of a stopper… The egg disk [I used it this time for 14 eggs] is not quite big enough to turn the chook eggs properly ! They are big chook eggs and the holes in the disk aren’t big enough to let the eggs sit on the bottom of the incubator to get turned – as a result they just get carried around inside and don’t roll … a bit tricky, only a couple of eggs were too big but all in all I think it is a fantastic little unit. My only regret is that I didn’t’ get a bigger unit to hatch more eggs at one time !! :) loving this game and thanks again for your great product and service, I have just purchased some proper chick feeders etc from you as well. All serving me well and I'm sure I will be in touch again sometime.Cheers