Egg collection and storage: you get better results when the eggs are no more then 10 days old, 7 is better. Day light is increasing, so production will be increasing too. May I suggest spending about a month reading old posts about incubating--you'll learn a lot, really.
Feed your chickens well, extra vitamins, greens and more protein for about 30 days before collection.
Store pointy end down, use only clean eggs or eggs than can be spot cleaned with sand paper, store in humid area at 45-60 degrees and turn 2x per day.
Get a note book and keep notes about incubator temps and humidity 2-4 times a day, number of eggs inside, where you are incubating in your house, ambient temp and humidity.
Candling eggs or weighing eggs during incubation is critical. Eggs must loose 13% of weight so that the chicks are small enough to twist to zip. Find a digital scale, if you can. Many people have sucess with the dry incubation method, see ChooksCHick BYC page for details.
Accurate thermometer is critical; ball park RH is good, as candling or weighing method will reveal if the %RH should be increased or decreased.
I have touched on the important aspects of incubating; everything must be nearly perfect to get a good hatch. I started a thread of information when I was just starting to learn about incubating. Here it is.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=541936
Good luck--it's fun, scary, nerve wracking and you'll never stop!
