Anyone ever cut eggs to allow babies to emerge. I would not suggest this to anyone. This was my wifes first year to breed Cresties. Out of thirty eggs over the season we had successfully hatched two. These eggs that had gone bad all went full term. Around 60 days the eggs would begin to look bad, and upon cutting them open I would find fully developed geckos. So we were down to the last 10 eggs of the season. One hatched on its own, the last to be laid. We began to worry the others were not going to hatch after a week went by. I breed bps and cutting eggs is not as big of a deal, but with geckos there is no room in the egg for mistake. So last night after contimplating on cutting or waiting we convinced ourself to cut. I have a baby rock rattlesnake that is eating lizards so if the eggs had gone bad I could use them. So I cut and out came a very healthy baby. So I cut three more and all had very healthy babies come out. 24 hours later and all babies are still doing well. I will not pursue this as a common practice, I would rather them hatch on their own.. But we had better success cutting the eggs then we had allowing them to hatch on their own. One of the babies I cut the egg on is the biggest baby I hatched all season.. I have had babies cut the egg with their egg tooth, and die trying to get out. Anyone have any thoughts on this practice.