The main reason we are going to keep them separate is my wife does not want to kill baby chickens and that is what she thinks we would be doing if we ate fertile eggs. We plan on selling the baby chickens most of them anyway.
I have been thinking about raising my chickens for eggs and babies. The only thing I don't want fertile eggs for eating. I was woundering if it would be a good idea to keep some chickens on one side of the coop for eggs and one for babies making 2 runs and splitting the coop by chicken wire...