Tracking chicks and the shells they hatched from

[Casey76]

Good morning

I'm looking for some ideas on how to track chicks and from which shell they hatched from. I obviously set my eggs so that they should hatch on a Saturday or Sunday, when I can keep a close eye on them, but sometimes they hatch during the night (obviously just to frustrate me... after staying up until 1am with nothing happening of course

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I have heard of using underwear laundry bags so that the chick and shell stay together, while still allowing movement - does anyone here do that, or use other methods?

Thanks

 

[midget_farms]

The best way would be to seperate each egg in the hatcher so they can't mix after hatching. I'm thinking I'll use some sort of hardware cloth to seperate mine .

 

[pips&peeps]

I use garment bags sometimes and they work great.

 

[Robo]

You could put a cardboard box with squares cut out for each egg while making it high enough to where they can't climb over. That would probably work or you could put a camera over it.