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.
