Janoel 12 tips

[KBr]

I would like to share how I achieved an 80% to 100% hatch rate with a Janoel 12 incubator.

Please note: Hatch rate only includes the percentage of fertile eggs that successfully hatched, and excludes infertile eggs from the calculation.

First hatch - 14 out of 24 eggs hatched. Too much humidity, temperature too high

Second hatch 12 out of 14 hatched

Third hatch 4 out of 4 eggs hatched

Incubation tips:

- Waited for 12 hours after the eggs travelled to my place before commencing incubation

- Wrapped a towel around the bottom half of the incubator for the duration of the incubation

- Kept incubator in the hot water cupboard

In addition to the above tips, for the second and third hatch I improved hatch rate by doing the following:

- carefully scraped off any chicken poop with a sharp knife before incubation

- Kept a glass thermometer (from Chook Manor) in the incubator and kept temperature at 37.5 C, ignoring incubator’s digital temperature display

- turned the eggs manually 3 times per day. Checked temperature on glass thermometer each time and adjusted temperature if necessary

- was very careful not to bump eggs, and always turned eggs slowly.

- minimised the number of times I candled the eggs. When candling turned eggs very slowly and for as little time as possible.

- Dry incubated for the first 19 days (no water added). Days 20 and 21 added water and sprayed the incubator with a fine mist every time I lifted the lid.

I hope these tips help improve your own hatch rates.

 

[triciayoung]

You did a lot of work to get to these awesome outcome numbers. You should write an article. In fact, you have it written already, you can just post it in articles. I will watch for it. You could also add the incubator as an item for review and copy and paste this information. Thank you.