I have split open a lot of eggs over the years, and I don't think I could say that I have ever "saved" anything. Most of the eggs were way over due and when opened either were infertile and full of fluid, or rarely contained a fully developed dead baby. Only once can I remember opening an egg that contained a live baby ready to hatch. I may have saved it, but most likely it would have hatched out within a few hours anyway.

On the other side, I have also opened up eggs that I thought should have hatched to find live babies that still had large yolk sacs to be absorbed. Out of the 4 of 5 of these eggs over the years only 1 ever survived. So even if I did save 1, which I doubt, I killed at least 4x that many.

Long story short....don't open eggs, leave them alone until they go bad. Your chances of saving a baby are low, but you are very likely to kill one.

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