Troubles making a counter count from 1 to 12
You are using your counters entirely wrong. Do not derive a logic signal to drive a clock. Never, never, never. Instead, run the clock to all counters and then derive logic as follows







simulate this circuit &ndash; Schematic created using CircuitLab
Note that I have not bothered to deal with possible false states on power-up. That is left as an exercise to the reader.