So this is my first season breeding my girls and I'm very excited! I've bred rabbits for years and show them at a national level, so I am aware of what I am getting in to, and I've done tons and tons of research to educate myself the best I can before I start this. My breeders are in a rack system with belly heat, and are currently in lower temps for the upcoming season. They are 86 during the day and 82 at night. The temp drop started on Oct. 1st.
All my girls are at or above 1500 grams each with the biggest one being well over 2000 and my males are all at least 1000 grams (closer to 1300 though), so I feel they will all be a good, healthy weight for this season. I plan on introducing males to the females on Nov. 1st and stopping when ovulation is spotted, or on April 1st..

I do have 2 questions though that I cannot seem to find answers to anywhere.

1) What sort of breeding schedule do you guys keep? I've seen a lot of people do the three days on/three days off method and feed in between if they will take it. But I have also heard that people will give the female a week off before introducing the male again, and the male will go to a different female in between? Thoughts on this? I've heard of overbreeding males and stressing out females with too much breeding.

2)What do you guys do for your egg tubs in the incubator? What's the mixture and I have seen people using a sort of grate that the eggs sit on? Links on where I can purchase things for incubation would be awesome!

Any other advice is happily welcomed! I have genetics under my belt pretty well, but snakes are a rather large difference from rabbits. I already breed my own feeder rats and mice, so no worries there. I will be building a hatchling rack over winter since I don't believe anyone is going to be popping out eggs within the first few weeks, lol!