Janoel

[backyardjack]

Dont want to sound stupid but what does OH mean? and how did you candling go? i cant wait to candle my own egg, sounds silly but i suppose its all part of the experience ahaha

 

[dorpersheep]

OH = Other Half...Hubby...etc.

We candled 48 eggs last night (end day 7). 6 we are sure are 'no', 5 are a maybe 'no' the rest are all goers! Most of the 'no' ones are our own eggs, either Mr Roger is not doing his job properly or one of his hens isn't. Never mind, quite happy with the number of possibles thus far!

 

[MisfitMarie]

OH = Other Half...Hubby...etc.

We candled 48 eggs last night (end day 7). 6 we are sure are 'no', 5 are a maybe 'no' the rest are all goers! Most of the 'no' ones are our own eggs, either Mr Roger is not doing his job properly or one of his hens isn't. Never mind, quite happy with the number of possibles thus far!

Heck, yeah! Congrats! That's exciting! It's only day 5 for me and it is SOOO HARD to resist the urge of candling my eggs. =/

 

[dorpersheep]

Heck, yeah! Congrats! That's exciting! It's only day 5 for me and it is SOOO HARD to resist the urge of candling my eggs. =/

You're not wrong MisfitMarie!!! It was all I could do to hold on until day 7.....they very nearly got looked at day 6 instead!

Farming IS teaching me patience....but only slowly!!! hahaha

 

[Pooman]

Heck, yeah! Congrats! That's exciting! It's only day 5 for me and it is SOOO HARD to resist the urge of candling my eggs. =/

Hi guys, its funny reading this. Its almost exactly what I'm doing. I'll explain below. And with regards to the candling, i do day 3-4. You can tell easily then. Either a nice network of veins and an eye is visible. Or its an egg. Or your veins, but with a thicker blood ring. Take the blood rings out, they are early quitters, but not very common.

Now my setup and some things you might want to think about.

Ive been incubating weekly for about 9 weeks now. Next week is last week of hatching before the summer heat.
I have a 48 janoel for the first 18 days, then use the 12 for hatching. And have recently bought a 24 (all janoel). The 24 is now used for keeping the hatched chicks in after they come out. Now, depending on how clean your hatches are and how long they take, the hatcher takes a pounding. Lots,of moisture, lots of goo. Stuff grows in there and its not easy to clean. So use your nose if it starts smelling bad you must take it to bits with a screw driver and clean it out properly, dry it good, then blast the cracks, motors etc with compressed air. Im sure we lost half of one of our hatches (6-7 chicks) becuase of germs killing em in shell.

Now important, my hatcher is in the bathroom (away from the cats lol) so its easy for us to steam the room with hot water and make it very humid before we open the hatcher. Ive also cling wrapped chicks by opening it without the extra humidity (oh the learning curve). That is the only way to get the hatched ones out without jeopardising the other hatching eggs. There needs to be condensation running down the walls right... Before u open it. Since doing this the hatcher stays a lot cleaner, the chicks dont disturb the other eggs by playing soccer with them and our hatch rates are very good.

Another thing i noticed about the 24, you cant see the water level (same as the 48 i guess) but, the 24 is a hurricane in there... Great for drying the chicks out, I'm not sure how it would,work as a hatcher. It seems to have a much stronger fan than the 12.

Also, you must check your temperatures and humidity. This stuffed me in so many ways at the start. I now use a body thermometer 36-44oc range (very accurate) and several other temp probes and humidity probes (electronic ones) to calibrate the settings,of each incubator. They are often way out.

 

[backyardjack]

Can i see some pictures of your janoel 12s because I think there is an older one and a newer one and dont no what one to get! too many decision ahaha

 

[MisfitMarie]

Hi guys, its funny reading this. Its almost exactly what I'm doing. I'll explain below. And with regards to the candling, i do day 3-4. You can tell easily then. Either a nice network of veins and an eye is visible. Or its an egg. Or your veins, but with a thicker blood ring. Take the blood rings out, they are early quitters, but not very common.

Now my setup and some things you might want to think about.

Ive been incubating weekly for about 9 weeks now. Next week is last week of hatching before the summer heat.
I have a 48 janoel for the first 18 days, then use the 12 for hatching. And have recently bought a 24 (all janoel). The 24 is now used for keeping the hatched chicks in after they come out. Now, depending on how clean your hatches are and how long they take, the hatcher takes a pounding. Lots,of moisture, lots of goo. Stuff grows in there and its not easy to clean. So use your nose if it starts smelling bad you must take it to bits with a screw driver and clean it out properly, dry it good, then blast the cracks, motors etc with compressed air. Im sure we lost half of one of our hatches (6-7 chicks) becuase of germs killing em in shell.

Now important, my hatcher is in the bathroom (away from the cats lol) so its easy for us to steam the room with hot water and make it very humid before we open the hatcher. Ive also cling wrapped chicks by opening it without the extra humidity (oh the learning curve). That is the only way to get the hatched ones out without jeopardising the other hatching eggs. There needs to be condensation running down the walls right... Before u open it. Since doing this the hatcher stays a lot cleaner, the chicks dont disturb the other eggs by playing soccer with them and our hatch rates are very good.

Another thing i noticed about the 24, you cant see the water level (same as the 48 i guess) but, the 24 is a hurricane in there... Great for drying the chicks out, I'm not sure how it would,work as a hatcher. It seems to have a much stronger fan than the 12.

Also, you must check your temperatures and humidity. This stuffed me in so many ways at the start. I now use a body thermometer 36-44oc range (very accurate) and several other temp probes and humidity probes (electronic ones) to calibrate the settings,of each incubator. They are often way out.

This is great advice! I have two incubators, a Janoel 12 and a Janoel 48. I plan on doing something similar: hatching eggs in the Janoel 12 and incubating in the Janoel 48. That's a good point about the bathroom. I already have them set up in the sitting room downtsairs, but maybe it wouldn't do too much damage to quickly move them into the bathroom when the time comes...?

And GEE... Thanks a lot! =P Now, I'm going to HAVE to candle my eggs when I get home in hopes of spotting something. Hahaha =P

How do you ad water to your incubator on the Janoel 12? I'm going with a dry incubation for my Black Copper Maran eggs (probably another reason that I can't see much, the shell is so dark). I find that my Janoel 12 humidity level is rather annoying to try to keep up. I have been waking up every morning to it being as low as 15%. Any advice for keeping it low, but steady? I'm afraid that the levels dropping every night in my sleep are going to hurt my eggs.

 

[Pooman]

Marie,

I only use the 12 for hatching, so just fill it at the start, it lasts all the way through with the same surface area. My 12 base only has one area, no channels, so doesnt matter as long as there is some that covers the entire bottom space. As best as i can tell mine sits about 80-85 during hatching then shoots up obviously when a chick hatches... This is fine and normal and the drying chick adds humidity to the air.

Another tip. A steaming hot piece of kitchen towel lobbed in when you remove the chicks (in your steamy room), but make sure its not able to contact any hatching eggs.. Incase it touches the membrane and dries it out fast (thats also why you dont hatch them up right in paper based egg cartons).... Another learning curve that one

For my 48. Im almost dry hatching. I turned the darn humidity alarm way down low. And now add a shot glass of water (standing up right in the middle, the turners just miss it) it takes about 2 days to evaporate, then stays dry until its opened again to add/remove/candle 1-2 per week when we are eggcited lol

And here one of my new hens

 

[batchhatchin]

Plain and simple you get what you pay for. I'll never waste my money on this brand again. The incuview from incubator warehouse is a lot better buy. I'm on a tight budget but that little more gets a lot better bang for the buck. If you don't want a big disappointment on hatch day save your money. JN= junk. Imop

 

[backyardjack]

So what janoel 12s have we got then the older one or the newer one?