I still fully beg to differ, please explain to me why I need it for shipped eggs and not local ones? You keep mentioning expensive shipped eggs as if that makes any difference it simply doesn't, they do not require any different temperature... In fact I do incubate 'expensive' local and 'shipped' eggs and I don't use a different thermometer... Yeah a $25 (or more) pea egg might not be the most expensive egg out there by it's not exactly cheap either when you load up a dozen of them... In fact to be blunt the thermometer in my incubator is only a safety minder at this point, I calibrated my incubator early this year and have not touched it since, I technically don't even need a thermometer in there... I had a 95% hatch rate this season out of over 100 eggs set, I can tell you with a straight face that I would not change a thing and didn't need a 1/10th degree thermometer...
If my incubator is holding eggs between 99°-100° what does it matter what type of thermometer I use to take that measurement as long as it's accurate and true... To be blunt again I don't need to know if it's 99.2°, 99.6° or 99.8° it's simply not important for me to know that 1/10th of a degree, as long as I know it's between 99°-100° and is an accurate reading...You simply don't need 1/10th of a degree of resolution, you need accuracy and calibration, and again those are three entirely different but connected things...
