I'm expecting my first two clutches this season (one due at the end of July...the other female is in blue with her pre-lay shed). I've been doing my research on both cutting before pips, cutting after pips, and allowing all the babies to pip on their own. I've decided that I'm not going to cut at all. There are very few surprises in life and this just happens to be one of them (I have the same view on finding out genders of unborn human babies). I want to go crazy with no knowing what's in my eggs, even if it does just that: make me go crazy! However, if there's an egg that's not pipping on it's own after it's siblings are already out of the egg or I feel like there may be some other kind of problem, I will probably cut.