Janoel 12 incubator

[ButteCA]

Based off of your username, I think we live a couple of counties above you. My husband and I actually left TN to come out here to CA
Small world!

Have you been getting a ton of rain down there? I’ve been running my Janoel12 dry bc it’s been so humid with all this rain!

The grass is always greener on the other side I guess ha ha! Not as much as last year. The creek by our house only flooded out drive way once this year, no evacuation for dams breaking and not one vehicle got stuck in the mud lol but I live in the middle of the orchard so yes I will expect that this summer it could get humid the trees were only small trees last year but my sister lives in the middle of a peach orchard and it gets pretty humid there during the summer.

 

[naf_appaz]

I was born raised Ventura, Ca. came to Ms. because my work of 30 yrs. moved and made me an offer I could not afford to refuse....I now have 60 acres and enjoy it here despite the heat of summer....life is funny! Not sure I'll ever adapt to the fried food but I do like me some black eyed peas!

 

[ButteCA]

I use this humidity/temperature gauge an just slide the wires in and have this sitting on top.
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I always calibrate everything before putting eggs in. I use ice water test for my temperature probe and salt test for the humidity. Then calibrate incubator temperature to my above temperature. Out of the box my incubator was a few degrees too high. Just explain to your daughter that this is a test run.

I did the salt test I think it’s working but I have idea how to understand this product at all. The max/min and the IN/OUT don’t know what it means at all lol.Can you help me?!

 

[NNYchick]

I did the salt test I think it’s working but I have idea how to understand this product at all. The max/min and the IN/OUT don’t know what it means at all lol.Can you help me?!

In the top left corner you want it to read “out” (as this measures the temperature at the probe), it is ment to put probes outside a window to measure temperature outside and inside. I don’t use the max/min I think that measures highest/lowest temperature since battery was last put in.

 

[NNYchick]

This is how I have mine setup. I wrap blanket around it because the room it’s in says about 60-65 so it helps to keep the incubator temperature stable and not have to work so hard.

 

[ButteCA]

This is how I have mine setup. I wrap blanket around it because the room it’s in says about 60-65 so it helps to keep the incubator temperature stable and not have to work so hard.
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Mine won’t get that warm unless I crank it up to highest temperature the incubator will go to. 97 degrees it’s been at. I don’t know how fussy chicken eggs but I will wait until day seven and candle and if nothing I guess I’m going to have to start fresh.

 

[NNYchick]

Something is not right. Did you check the temperature probe in ice water? Did you try wrapping incubator in blanket or scarf? Is the thermometer reading out in the top left corner. The temperature for hatching chicken eggs is 99.5 degrees.

 

[naf_appaz]

the max/min should have a reset button...it can be useful to let you know if you have any spikes or drops while you have been away by recording lowest and highest readings since last reset. I have had 3 of these all easily went over 100 degrees. As NNychick stated a blanket is good to insulate so it does not have to run all the time...i made a cover out of packing foam. I put it over the top of the incubator not just on the sides. Are you running the wire for thermometer wire between lid and bottom? if so it may allow to much heat escape through crack? I ran mine through top vent whole an ziptied so it hangs at top of eggs.

 

[ButteCA]

I think I will try to put some insulation around it. Yes I did run the wires between the lid but they are very thin and it closed up just like before. I’m on day four I finally noticed some air pockets forming. The humidity was a little high before and I corrected that. I also see a shape like a spider forming in one but it’s hard to see because the sun is coming up in California and I don’t have curtains that keep light out of my house. It may be that the ones that have nothing going on are not fertilized. I didn’t buy hatching eggs I just stole some from my coop and since I have a rooster I assume they are fertile. This is practice for us so I don’t have my hopes set to high. If you look close at the picture this one egg has a dark spot.

 

[ButteCA]

Jumped the gun uploading it