How To Care For Eggs Before Incubating. As you get your incubator ready you can also keep fertilized eggs in a refrigerator or a cool very cool place for up to two weeks. Wash it well with a 10 bleach solution.
Allow cool eggs to warm slowly to room temperature before placing in the incubator. Therefore do not store eggs more than 7 days before incubating. On average an egg needs to have a constant temperature of 100 degrees fahrenheit to hatch.
Allow cool eggs to warm slowly to room temperature before placing in the incubator.
Abrupt warming from 55 degrees to 100 degrees can cause moisture condensation on the egg shell which can lead to disease and reduced hatches. Dirty eggs can be incubated or washed using a suitable egg disinfectant before incubation but heavily soiled eggs are better off left out of the incubator unless they are particularly valuable. Disposing of rotten eggs defective eggs or dead chicks these can be disposed of in your hottest compost. Fresh eggs up to five days old can remain at a temperature in the low 60s.