Great Post Heather!!! I'll be having a few clutches this year that I will need to put a poster in every room "I will not cut my eggs before the first one pips"... I am fine until that last two weeks. They have begun to collapse, and I know I COULD cut them at 45 days and likely get away with it. Cutting syndrome is a strange psychological condition -- someone should do a controlled study. It's not as though what's in each egg is going to change by the act of cutting. They are what the are. And yet... I am going to go hide all my scissors hoping I will forget where I put them should I get that "URGE". Again, GREAT POST!!