I have a good friend who was a cutter at day 50, a couple years ago, he had a clutch of Pieds he cut at day 50, 7 eggs and 6 pieds, they were fully formed and healthy at cut day, 6-7 days later, they had all died in the egg.

Guy works in a lab and had the egg fluid contents analysed, he discovered that all kinds of micro organism were living in this toxic soup.

What people do not realize is that as soon as you slice open an egg, the fluids start to rot around the hatchlings, when they go in and out of these fluids, they inevitably ingest these toxins.

I've asked him to do the same analysis with egg contents from an egg that piped and hatched on its own to compare with his previous analysis.

Granted, this could of been simply bad luck and thousands of hatchlings are produced from prematured cut eggs every year, those out there with horror stories are not always inclined to share, there are pros and cons BUT I am convinced the cons far outweight the pros in cutting early.

The general concensus here is to wait till one pips on its own and then manualy pip the rest of the clutch.

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