Who Uses Our Products

Brinsea Products Ltd, the Incubation Specialists have been focusing on incubator design continuously since 1976, resulting in incubators and accessories offering you unparalleled practicality, reliability and hatch rates with healthy chicks time after time and are the choice of top breeders and conservation centres worldwide.

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Jemima Parry-Jones MBE is an authority on birds of prey, a conservationist, author, raptor breeder, lecturer, consultant and is the Director of the International Centre for Birds of Prey. In June 1999 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours list for services to bird conservation. Jemima has used Brinsea incubators for many years. 

'We have used the Brinsea Octagons and the Contact Incubators for ages now, the Octagons are perfect for dealing with single more difficult eggs and the new design is great. The Contact is great for eggs that have to come away from parents on day one, which we occasionally have to do, although not from choice. They are well made and always improving, rather than remaining the same product the whole time. Brinsea are a UK company so if you have an emergency with incubators it can be sorted out quickly and I am delighted with the service and support we get from them. I also like the fact that they keep improving products, never standing still and being satisfied!'

Simon Piggott from Broadstairs in Kent breeds quail, and has used Brinsea incubators for many years.

'I currently use Brinsea Mini Advance incubators that I bought at the beginning of 2010. In previous years I used manual incubators but have moved on to these are amazing little fully automatic machines. The fully automated and easily programmable setup makes these a pleasure to use. The fact that I can hatch around a dozen eggs in the special tray is ideal for hatching quail. I mostly raise ornamental species of quail. Bobwhite and California are my favourites to breed. I like them as they are more active than the usual species due to the fact they climb and perch. I have not had any problems with the incubators so far, I can confidently leave them to their job knowing my next batch of chicks are always just a few weeks away. I have also hatched chickens in the past in Brinsea incubators, and a peacock.'

Andy Cawthray from Oswestry breds rare Owlbeards and uses Brinsea incubators...

'I breed pure breed chickens and a number of rare breed chickens too and have been using Brinsea incubators since I first started out hatching and rearing stock some years ago. I have a number of the DX20 incubators plus a couple of DX40 incubators. My favourite is the DX20 Auto, its small and reliable and when I'm incubating eggs from the very rare Owlbeards I keep and breed, it's this machine I trust to do the job. With numbers of Owlbeards in the UK (and worldwide) being perilously close to extinction for at the least the second time in its existance I need to be sure I'm using something that can handle small numbers of eggs effectively and effortlessly, the Brinsea DX20 Auto does this for me. The humidity metre on the Auto model removes the guess work previously needed on the old DX20 models and as such I can be confident that I've minimised the risk of techinical issues impacting the efforts to revive this oldest of Dutch chicken breeds.'

Gill Lucraft knows more about hedgehogs than she ever thought possible since opening Hedgehog Bottom, a rescue centre in West Berkshire for sick, injured and orphaned wild hedgehogs. The centre began with just a few animals but has rapidly grown, taking in over 200 hedgehogs in 2010. 'We managed to get funding from Greenham Common Trust for two incubators. We chose the TLC4 as it is compact and will easily accommodate a single animal that needs heat and monitoring but we also purchased the larger TLC-5 which has been an absolute boon during 2010. We had an unprecented number of large litters coming in straight from the nest. The TLC-5 easily held a litter of seven until they were weaned and provided the heat so necessary for these tiny ones. Over the autumn and winter it was in constant use, often with the Nebuliser attachment, for hogs with lungworm and pneumonia. The service and support from Brinsea has been amazing and it's comforting to know that our vet uses the same products as ours.'

Rebecca Hanson from Haute-Vienne in France uses the OvaEasy 380 Advance...

'We run a small family farm in the heart of France.  We produce turkey & geese for the English at Christmas plus chicken & ducks for our own freezer.  I can't believe how great the OvaEasy 380 Advance is.  We used to have lots of smaller hand-turning incubators but since buying the OvaEasy 380 Advance we've had so much more time for other jobs & not had to worry about remembering to turn the eggs.  We love it so much we are going to buy another one this year. We also have the Hatchmaker to run in conjunction with the incubator. We have had the OvaEasy 380 for just over a year now, it has to be my favourite product.'

Lottie Evans from Devon is 7 years old…

One of our youngest incubator users is Lottie Evans and she is 7 years old.  For her birthday last year she asked for an incubator and her parents bought her a Brinsea Mini Advance.  Lottie loves all animals and so far in the last year she has hatched 6 duckings (Aylesbury and Khaki Campbells), 5 chicks, and 4 quail. She is would like to try to hatch a goose egg this month, but she will need an Octagon 20… Her dad is kept very busy building the various houses for the birds! Lottie says, 'Hatching eggs is loads of fun.  The best bit is watching when the beak starts pecking at the shell and you just know a chick is going to pop out.  It's also great when you check in the morning and a little chick has popped out in the night and is sat there looking at you!'

Marilyn Pope from Caerleon incubates eggs as a hobby...

‘I’m a mum to two children who started off with two light Sussex hens and I bought a second hand Octagon 20DX incubator off e-bay and it all started from there really!  I took on several rescue hens but I am so used to keeping pure breeds that I really missed it; so I pulled the incubator out of the cupboard and have started hatching again. Incubating for me is more of a hobby and something for the children but I enjoy working with poultry and through experience of buying in birds that have been ill in the past I think incubating your own eggs is the safest way to keep a flock free from disease. I have really enjoyed hatching all sorts of breeds over the years but my favourites were definitely the Indian Runners and the turkeys.’

Oliver Wood from Berkshire is 15, he is using a Mini Eco incubator for his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award…

‘I started keeping chickens a year ago for my Duke of Edinburgh's Bronze Award.  When I moved onto my Silver DofE I needed to show development in my skill so I decided to hatch my own chickens.  I researched the costs and equipment needed and quickly found out that Brinsea were the best products. I was given the Mini Eco for Christmas and bought a selection of fertilised eggs over the internet.  I have now done two batches.  I hatched 5 out of 6 fertile eggs in batch one, and 7 out of 9 in the second batch.  There's a real mixture of breeds, and I have found a good home for any roosters that we may have and will keep the girls for egg-laying.  I upload pics of my chicks, movies of the hatching etc to my eDofE account (the online record system for my DofE Silver) and have kept a good record of every stage of the process - the Brinsea incubator made everything really clean and simple as I could view the eggs hatching and be sure the temperature and humidity was kept at the right levels. I'm glad I got the incubator that didn't turn the eggs as it meant I could be involved 3 times a day turning them.  My friend borrowed an automatic turner and he just left it for 21 days until hatching - boring!’