I just loosely lay a piece of wax paper on top of the eggs or pile of eggs and punch a couple of holes in it to help retain the moisture if needed. I don't use an incubater but just put them in a plastic shoe box with a few small holes in the lid on the top shelf of my room which is probably 82 at that height. They hatch just fine if fertilized. Also don't worry about all the wives tales about touching the eggs, water dripping on eggs etc. Could tell a ton of stories on eggs rolling over, being picked up by 50 kids and squeezed some, etc and they hatched just fine. People some time loose eggs and try to find a reason why and that is how some of these tales get started. Not based on fact but assumptions. If you are new to this start candling your eggs, this means using a pen light up against the egg in a dark room and you should still see veins. This tells you it is a fertilized egg. It doesn't mean it will hatch a perfect baby since deformities and death happens in incubation for whatever reason. But an unfertilized egg can look good well past the 60 incubation days and still be a non fertilized egg that obviuosly will never hatch. Also don't worry about fungus etc. I've had fertilized eggs surrounded by horrible looking decayed eggs and they hatch just fine if fertilized in the first place. Good luck. Also a very old qrticle which holds true is that for every 2 degrees or so below or above 82 takes a week longer to hatch. Don't go too high. 85 to me is a little high. Have had eggs hatch at 75 but it tokk forever.

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