Ovation 56 EX Egg Incubator, Automatic Turning & Humidity Control

I’m new to egg hatching and have now seamlessly hatched three separate batches of eggs thanks to this awesome incubator! It’s extremely easy to use (Brinsea’s YouTube setup video really helps), self manages and provides consistent results. I know it more expensive than alternative brands, but well worth it for the quality and consistently. It provides a very steady temperature, manages rotating the eggs on its own and adds whatever water is needed to keep the humidity consistent (simple attach an ice cream bucket of water to the provided tubing). I literally went on vacation for two weeks and came back to well developed eggs ready to hatch! Awesome and well worth the money for someone who wants a low maintenance experience with all the fun of hatching eggs!

I LOVE this incubator! I will never buy another brand at this point. I was having such issues with humidity and temp in my NR360s, and when I use this, perfect every single time! The auto humidity feature is amazing, its really a set and forget situation. I do wish the incubator came with more replacement sponges, but you only get the one. Mine came without the power cable as well, I called brinsea and they sent one out immediately via fedex! I was so impressed with their customer service! My ONLY complaint about this is that it can be hard to clean the top, you have to unscrew it all and clean each section, but I'm sure they will improve that with time. All in all, extremely happy with my purchase.

This incubator does everything for you and takes away the stress from incubating. It monitors the humidity in its own and pulls in water when needed. It has an automatic egg turner that can be set at different time intervals. So far, we have had a 100% hatch rate with this incubator!

Best incubator I've used in decades of poultry raising. The Brinsea is rock solid on temperature control. It's excellent on humidity for most of incubation period and decent to good on late stage humidity. The latter is one of those get-to-know the device issues. And the humidity for 7/8th of the process is flawless. I am in my fifth year of using my Brinsea 56 Ex. So my review is unusual in that it's a rather long-term evaluation. Two maintenance issues are a pain, but only one of them is serious. The more minor issue is the need to replace, every year, the short internal humidity tube that winds around the capstan pump. I get anxious every time, but it's not that big a deal. Especially if you refresh your memory with one of Brinsea's excellent YouTube videos. I guess I am getting old and don't want to fiddle! And for the price, I wish I didn't have to. Which brings me to the cleaning issue and the related serious durability problem. To continue to see through the top, you must clean off the chick down that collects on the inside of the top. Wiping off the down is easy. But doing this requires you to remove six small screws that hold the inner liner below the top. Four of the screws are tiny and do not unscrew easily, even with a small screwdriver I've dedicated to this task. Furthermore, the screws insert into plastic housings that join the top and the inner liner together. In the fifth year/fifth time I cleaned, two of those housings cracked, one seriously. Probably Brinsea would say it's an over-tightening issue. And it probably is. But it's uber challenging to always stop the screws perfectly. And it frustrates me that there aren't small wingnut style bolts or some such instead of these tiny screws. Most of all, there should be a steel sleeve in the plastic for the screws. This year, my inner liner appears to be sagging in one corner because the screw won't hold in the cracked housing. The key role of the inner liner seems to be to keep chicks away from the fan. But since I hatch in separate baskets or mesh bags, for pedigree purposes, I hope I can remove the inner liner without much consequence. Otherwise, this mostly great, expensive incubator is shot after five uses.

When we were new to the wonderful world of breeding and showing poultry a couple years ago, we went down the learning curve road, and bought the styrofoam incubator and the 360. After struggling with lots of dead chicks at lockdown, poor hatching rates, and the inability to maintain constant humidity levels, we bought one of these 56s used. It was a game changer. We tried to use the 360 as a hatcher only, but that resulted in lots of lost chicks still lost at lockdown. These are not inexpensive, but compared to my losses in shipped eggs and losing chicks from my champion birds, the cost balances out imo. We purchased a second 56 last year, and used our original one as a hatcher. We've outgrown it, and I've just ordered my third. They are so easy and reliable, and my first two hatches this year were 100%. My third hatch was 90%, and these were all test hatches from different breeding pens. We're in the thick of hatching season now, and I'm looking forward to having another to have enough room to get my eggs going and to have larger hatches all at once.

Initially, I thought this was the best thing since sliced bread. I set it up, ran it a few days prior to monitor humidity and temperature and it didn't seem like it budged. On day 10, I candled my duck eggs. I put the cover back on, ensured it was tight (cover is heavy and a little awkward to handle) and the high-temperature alarm sounded. I checked everything out again, put the cover back on and it sounded again and kept climbing. the temperature reached an egg killing temperature of 120 degrees. I turned the machine off, and let it sit overnight. The next day I attempted to use it again and it reached 115 degrees before I shut it off. The product is defective. I'm not sure what happened but it's unusable at those temperatures for poultry eggs. I contacted the company and heard no reply (but to be fair it was Saturday morning at 2 AM). I also requested a replacement from Amazon since the product was defective. I believe this is a good incubator, but there is sometimes one person that gets a bad product. Unfortunately, that person was me. If the second one does the same thing, I will not repurchase this particular product. By the way, with temperatures that high humidity will not be correct either. **update** Brinsea did connect with me the following Monday and wanted me to troubleshoot with them but I already sent it back via UPS. Tuesday I received the replacement from Amazon and so far it's holding temperature and humidity.

This was well worth the money especially if you are breeding/showing poultry. It actually holds the humidity correctly! It's a bit hard to set up the line that goes from the pump to your water container, but one you get the hose sized correctly it works great. I didn't have to keep checking the humidity and temperature. I'd always advise using a second hygrometers to see the humidity and temp. It's see through so you can see your eggs and what's going on.

We bought this almost 6 months ago. It has literally run nonstop until today. We have hatched geese, chickens, guineas, and peachicks with terrific hatch rates on all. Highly recommend this product from our experience. Super easy to use and not loud at all. We removed the pipped and hatching before full hatch because the trays are not extremely chick friendly but worth every penny.

Julio 2020He tenido varias incubadoras a lo largo de la vida, desde las más baratas y manuales hasta las mas sofisticadas y automáticas. Pero ninguna iguala la calidad de temperatura y humedad mejor que la Brinsea. La temperatura se mantiene perfectamente nada de picos como otros modelos de otras marcas, la humedad se controla sin problemas. ademas que ocupa poco espacio para la cantidad de huevos que puede eclosionar. En un clima caliente como el de Yucatan siempre las incubadoras me daban problemas al sobrecalentarse siempre perder algún huevo. Con la Brinsea la temperatura tiene poquísima variación. Actualizare más adelante cuando nazcan los pollitos.

Wonderful incubator. After a couple of cheap overseas incubators I got fed up with losing chicks at the end of the hatch no matter how careful I was with humidity and malfunctioning units with poor design that I decided to invest in a Brinsea. Worth the money if you are hatching more than a few, I have had nearly 100% hatch rate, the humidity system on this thing is phenomenal. It stabilizes humidity so fast and consistently. Chick fluff / dander gets trapped inside lid once they start moving around though so be aware when you are taking the top off during hatch.

The incubator is highly accurate I set 52 eggs, 10 proved to be infertile/ zero development, 2 perished within 10 days, the rest hatched successfully. The hatching mats are thin cardboard. You can purchase another 6 for around $60 or cut out your own using the one provided as your stencil. I did not do this, I wish I would have though! Your humidity sponge is made out of paper like material. This must be tossed in the garbage after hatch. I recommend using a sponge instead. Cleaning is not the easiest. It took around one and a half hours to fully clean the unit the first time. It is not an issue because I like a high accurate machine giving me results. I can't wait to start my second batch of eggs!

Buena pero cara

Facile à programmer et se nettoye très bien, quand même de très bonne qualité. Juste un bémols, c'est dispendieux.