Thank you for the Hardware cloth divider idea. I thought about getting plastic bins, but I think the HW cloth will be perfect. It helps that I am building yet another coop, and I am sure I will have a little left over. This doesn't help you out, but it sure helped me, so again I thank you.We're back from vacation and I can start INCUBATING!!!
So besides a HWcloth divider, does anyone have any good ideas for separating eggs/chicks for hatching in a genesis? Here's my problem: I am collecting eggs from one pen for EEs under a barred roo (so everything should be barred that hatches) and eggs from ANOTHER pen for barred sex-links. See my problem? I don't want to mix them up. I'd just separate by comb, but the sex-links are going to be Wyandotte mixes and the EEs are going to be wheaten ameraucana mixes and those 2 combs look WAY too much alike at hatch.
Could strawberry boxes work? They have "vents" in them, I'm just not sure if it would be ENOUGH ventilation/airflow. Inexpensive is the key here.
as the bator is not that tall, hardware cloth is ideal
That's what I figured, and I already have one, actually, but it gaps a bit on one side just enough that a chick can fit through if it really wants to. Not a big deal when it's wheaten ameraucanas and black copper maran (which is the batch I first used it with since I also had olive eggers I was trying to keep out of the marans area) but with all these barred chicks I'm going to have it's a little more important to me. Guess I'll have to see what I can rig up to make it work.........
I made a fence with hardware cloth two and a half inches tall and the chicks climbed over, I need a roof !!!
why ever stopI thought I was going to stop hatching but I have 40 eggs coming from one place, 15 from another.... more next week and then more next weekend.... I think it will be a little bit before I STOP hatching
