First Baby Died

[loonunit]

It doesn't matter when we cut eggs? So it's okay to cut on day 40? 30? 10? If we're careful?

Look, I don't blame the breeder here. Somebody put this grand idea in his head. Day 49? Is that seriously when we're saying it's okay to cut eggs? No, let me guess: we're saying even earlier than that.

Can I just ask how many posts we've seen this year with people cutting a week or more early, being "careful", and then losing babies anyway?

Can we please stop saying it's okay to cut whenever? We're breeding these little animals that may or may not be worth a lot of money, and we're desperately impatient to see what nifty things we've made. And then somebody says it's okay to cut on day 58, on day 56, on day 52, on day 45. And then... we have no clue what happened?

C'mon, people. We know what happened. Eggs don't hatch until the baby is fully formed for a reason. What happened is: we got impatient, we listened to the advice we wanted to hear, we cut weeks early, we gashed giant holes in the blood supply of the egg, and a bacteria got in there and had a party. What happened is, we're killing our own animals.

Please, can we just tell people to wait? Waiting won't kill us.