My flock has a huge outdoor "Pasture" (It is 60 by 40 feet long) with many places to hide.
While the big girls are outside in the run all day, the chicks come out from the corner, but still don't dare go outside where the hens are.
A while ago I got 12 new chicks to go into my flock of 18, but we were planing on getting rid of 7 of the 18. but it turned out one of our pullets was in fact a rooster, so we wanted to get rid of the rooster with the other 7 girls, but I have herd of bad things happening when you only have one...