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question about unpipped eggs

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I added this question in my previous post "early hatching" but received no response, so here it is again:
I used to know the answer to this one but, after my 7-8 years off, I'm a bit rusty. At what point should you consider slitting unpipped eggs? I'm pretty sure that I recall the eggs of any given clutch pipping within 24 hr of one another. At 36 hrs after finding these guys, I still had 2 unopened eggs. I had mixed feelings about manually slitting them, especially since they were about a week early by the calendar (47 days as previously stated), but one had definite score marks visible. I carefully slit each one and opened them enough to see that there was a fully formed baby in each. I did not mess with them further, but i didn't see any movement. I won't know the status of those last 2 til I get home in the morning, but should I have intervened sooner (or should I have just let them be)? Honestly, if I hadn't noticed the 2 attempted slits in the one egg, I'm not sure that I would have stepped in yet.
 
I'm a newbie at this. I had 11 greyband KS eggs. Five pipped and hatched all on the same day, 3 days short of 60 days. Then three days later it dawned on me, duh, should I slit the other 6 eggs? Well when I did all had fully formed but dead babies. Would it have mattered if I'd slit those eggs the next day? I don't know. I have 8 more greyband eggs cookin' now and are due 06-01 and as soon as the first one pips I'm gonna slit the others.
 
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