I cutted the eggs earlier =S help

[rabernet]

I cut that early as its what i do. And not one problem has arose from it. Thats why i do it. There is no benifit or downfall to doing it at 45.

But why is it what you do? What made you decide that Day 45 was preferable to waiting for Day 52? You seem to be avoiding answering that question directly, but instead sort of dance around it, without any real substance as to why you've decided that Day 45 is the best business practice for Rich's Ball Pythons.

I really am trying to understand why one makes the decision to cut that early.

There must be "some" benefit for you personally, otherwise, why do it? Is it the benefit of seeing the babies a week earlier? Is it the coolness factor of being "cutting edge" and doing something others don't generally do?

Again, I'm not trying to be sarcastic or confrontational - perhaps it's my psychology degree being put to work, trying to understand why certain decisions are made.

I can tell you why I choose to cut on Day 52 - it's because I've seen drowned babies in eggs that were unable to cut their way out of the egg (not mine, but one of the big breeders), so I chose Day 52 to cut, because that's around the time that most of mine will start to pip (give or take a day or two). My decision to cut is to help prevent avoidable deaths in the egg.