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I have a permanent chick enclosure (a temporary pen with green netting round, secured at the bottom with stones and bird netting over the top works just as well) where I keep the chicks until they are about 3 to 4 months old, I usually integrate them at night so they all wake up together, you...

I'm really sorry, but I can't answer this question, as I have only ever put my chicks in natural lighting under a ceramic heat lamp, so when a stop the heat at 4 weeks the chicks are fully feathered and ready for life outside at 5 weeks old.

When I now leave a broody to hatch eggs I also set up a special run as I find the mother and chicks are much more relaxed and happy. I don't introduce chicks to the flock until they are about 4 months old.

My mother last year left a mother and her chicks with the flock and all the chicks were killed by the other hens, yet I myself have left the mother in the flock with no problems.