BrinseaMini II Eco Manual Egg Incubator with External Water Top-Up, Fan Assisted Air Circulation for Hatching 10 Chicken, Duck, or Other Eggs, Ideal for Beginners

Thanks Brinsea for the Mini II ECO. I was looking to help my nephew who is home schooled with a project. He decided to showcase Quail egg incubation and hatching. I choose the Mini II Eco as it suited my budget and didn’t know if I will ever use the incubator again , but to my surprise I have already hatched in the twice now. Because I work from home I opted for the manual turning kit which came with simple instructions.The project for my nephew was a huge success and he learnt a lot about incubation and hatching. He has kept the notes for future reference and those notes were helpful for me during the second hatch.The Mini II ECO was bought with the Semi Manual egg turner and Hatching mats. The turning kit was helpful because that meant I didn’t have to lift the lid to turn the eggs. The Mini II ECO came with easy to read instructions.

This was easy to use. The motor was a little louder than my more expensive incubator but the temperature remained very stable. I am not used to not having the electronic readout for temperature and humidity but the incubator works well. A digital thermometer/hygrometer can be placed inside if you really want to add one. I am monitoring percentage weight loss to determine how much water to add to the incubator so the hygrometer is not necessary. I hatched Sebastopol goose eggs. This is a great quality economical manual model, no frills but dependable, affordable, and even fits goose eggs!

I returned this product because it wasn’t what I expected. I guess I didn’t read the description well enough, so that’s on me but this particular Brinsea doesn’t have an automatic turner. Also, I returned this several weeks ago and have yet to. Get a refund. Having to work with Amazon to figure out the reason.

Just received this item 8/17/18 plug it in and let it sit a day before putting 19 poultry eggs in. I've been using a diy tank incubator before getting and have had low hatch rates. Hoping this will ease my mind. But today 8/20/18 having issues with the motor/ fan becoming very loud like its bogging down or about to blow up. It's almost like having a weed Wacker in the house. I already registered the product with brinsea so well see if it needs to be fixed or replaced, and who's gonna pay for it to be shipped back. I just find it ridiculous that after of couple days of running I'm already having issues, this is supposed to be a good brand.Update 8/22/18Still having issues with the fan according to Brinsea. They said they can ship a new fan or that I could return my product back to Amazon. For either option right now all 19 of my egg embryos are going to die because I can't get anything replaced in time.You can't replace death with money either. This is a huge disappointment. If your going to buy this you may as well have two extra fans on hand to make it to hatch day.12/29/20After getting the replacement fan this unit it worked alright. I've used it two other times for chicken and duck eggs. The duck eggs seemed to do better than the chicken eggs. I kept having chicken eggs from my own chickens that would start growing and then die in shell. And I'm currently using it for a mix of quail eggs. The problem is that this unit will no longer stay warm enough. The units thermometer reading 99 but I always put two different hygrometers in it. They read 89. Tried adjusting the temp with the little screwdriver it does nothing. Right now its almost hatch day for these quail but upon candling them last night none looked viable/ already dead. So there goes $50 for 30 quail eggs. What I did to bring the temp up to 99 - 100 by placing a heat lamp off to the side of the incubator in a small unused room in my house, but because I didnt catch the temp problem right away my eggs are bad. Im hoping I can get a replacement since I'm under the 3 year mark. Just for the price you expect more reliability.

I purchased the Brinsea Maxi Eco to hatch out a few of our eggs. I’ve never used an incubator before, but know Brinsea is a trusted brand. This model doesn’t have all the fancy features, but I was ok with that. I turned the eggs 3 times a day I added water every 2-3 days. I put a total of 20 eggs in it (Black Australorp, Black Copper Marans, Ameraucanas) and all of them hatched perfectly! I purchased the Acu-rite thermometer to monitor the humidity but now that I’ve used it I don’t think it’s needed, the Brinsea does exactly what it’s supposed to do and keeps everything at the right levels. I HIGHLY recommend this incubator!

I am really happy with this little incubator. It holds the temperature and humidity very well. The thermometer at the top is accurate and I really like that the humidity and temperature do not fluctuate like it can in other incubators. I’m super happy with this. I’ve been monitoring the temperature and humidity with other thermometers but I do not think this is necessary because it’s accurate and consistent.

Upon researching what incubator I should purchase I found nothing but great reviews on Brinsea incubators. However, this by far is nothing like the reviews. For starters, the humidity is everywhere, I can not get it to go any higher than 38% unless I add open-faced water into the incubator or a sponge. Even then, the humidity jumps and falls. It is impossible to enter the 'lockdown' stage of incubation without having to open it on multiple occasions to try add more water to the sponge etc. The temperature is very finicky as well. It took forever to get set and even once it was it would have random times when it would jump essentially frying half the eggs I was trying to incubate the second week. Overall, I purchased this believing it would have a great hatch rate that my child and I could really enjoy however, this does not seem to be the case. I would suggest trying other models or a different brand entirely to anyone looking to purchase a medium-high quality incubator.