This is just a question: I had an old man come to the house one day when I had eggs in the incubator. He told me his mom use to take all the eggs from the hen and make little holes in them on hatch day to help them out and prevent them from suffocating for any reason. Has anyone ever heard of this? What would happen if you took all the hatching eggs in the bator on hatch day and do that? (I am still feeling bad about the 5 fully formed chicks that were trying to get out on hatch day and ended up dieing in the shell for whatever reason) Anyway, someone once asked me what would happen if on hatch day, you just cracked the shell open like you were going to eat it! I don't know as I have never done it. What does happen???? I know these are silly questions, but just wondered about how people did things different in the olden days.