If I were to place all of my eggs in one basket, then could I count my chickens before they are hatched?

Yes...in the sense of reality you can do so. However in the most correct sense even holding them up to the light you are still only counting eggs and the 'possibilites' of approximate chickens as no egg is the same, some have moe clouded insides, some have double yolks, or even three, often one will be barren or so underdeveloped it isn't construed as a chicken but an aborted fetus of a chicken.and the age will often give rise to questionable diagnosing..So you are seriously guesstimating here. As well it is the food foods or grains that they have eaten, many of the chickens say you have a chicken farm and not simply two of them, will give to you different read altogether frioma scientific standpoint as they age and cannot carry their weight, they eggs tend to become tainted from feces and therefore clouded so what you may be construing as a chicken may be a clouded nothing.and in younger chickens even with a small eggs it might surprise you that you saw blood through the light testing, and you do come to find out that this small chicken has the capacity in the genepool of egg layer to lay doubles. Therefore I would NOT count all of my chickens before they re hatched,I would watch with care that the pens are secure from the likes of chicken predators and theives, for they too are a player in your total, finally remember to account for breakage at any given point along theway.This is called good business, a pain inthe ****, as well dedication and a watchful eye on the beaked variety and stapel of the fasting of the break.....good questioon....my father was a genticist biologist

No because one of those embryos may not be fertilized. I'm not being literal. What I am saying that to say something has come through for you before you get the results. Say you have won before the points have been gathered up. I'll give you another example, you have an idea so you want to tell everyone before putting your plan into action with out knowing if that plan would fail or succeed. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched until the results are in.

Nope. Because they're not actually chickens until they hatch and you never know how many will or won't hatch.

Oven Baked fish fry chicken ingredients 4 boneless chicken breasts a million/3 c. water 4 chicken legs ( I regularly in basic terms use the breasts) a million/2 c. sliced candy onion a million 2/3 c. fish fry sauce (i take advantage of candy toddler Rays Honey BBQ-in basic terms 70 energy no fat) a million/2 c. sliced eco-friendly pepper a million/4 tsp. garlic powder 4 strips 1st Baron Beaverbrook in part cooked and broken right into a million" sections (oscar meyer center shrink 1st Baron Beaverbrook in basic terms has 4 g of fat. for 8 products of chicken that's in basic terms a million/2 a strip of 1st Baron Beaverbrook consistent with piece of chicken.) instructions for Oven Baked fish fry chicken Spray shallow casserole dish or pan with Pam. do away with dermis from chicken, salt & pepper the two factors, and place in dish. suitable with onions, eco-friendly peppers, and 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Stir mutually fish fry sauce & garlic powder and skinny with water; pour over chicken, lifting products so as that some sauce runs below chicken. conceal dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 tiers for a million hour. do away with dish from oven. improve oven temp. to 450. do away with aluminum foil and return dish to oven for 20 minutes, basting chicken frequently. YUM!!!

You could hold the eggs up to a bright light to see if anything is growing in them. That's how they check for duck fetuses in Vietnam.

Except for the ones in the bush..

You certainly could.

You would also certainly risk being wrong, but why let that stop you?

Life is a crapshoot... If you never take any risks, then you aren't living. :-D

Nope, it's bad luck. Count your blessings when it's there.