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I know what you meant, but I think slightly different words would have made it more clear: Chicks START feathering right away, even before they hatch. Six weeks is when many chicks are FULLY feathered, the point at which they do not need supplemental heat in a brooder and can be treated about...

Those chicks will need supplemental heat for a while (at least a few weeks.) You could brood them in the house, or divide the existing coop and brood them there. Chicks need warm enough temperature, and protection from heat/cold, wind/rain/snow, predators, older chickens. If you can provide...

Depending on how big the pullets are and how big the bantams are, it might be harder to provide safe spaces in this case. Little chicks can go through openings that would stop a big adult chicken, but adult bantams might be the same size as partly-grown pullets of a larger breed. (This is just...