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While they are separated, it does not matter if the beak is sharp or not. So having them separated for now, and then thinking about whether to do something with the beak, sounds like a good strategy. Yes, pieces of a parakeet cage will probably work very well for separating chicks within a brooder.

Use a divided brooder: one big pen, with some kind of divider that they can see through but cannot go through. The divider can be hardware cloth, or a cooling rack swiped from the kitchen, or an old window screen, or a piece of chicken wire (but bantam chicks might be able to go through that)...