Thank you very much!! This is all very helpful!! Both the chicken stuff and the sunscreen stuff!! That is scary about your dad!! Hopefully he stays in remission!! I’ll definitely remember sunscreen next time. I usually actually probably put wayyyy too much on and reapply a lot but I just didn’t really think of it cause it was just a food truck festival/craft thing so I didn’t think we’d be there that long or that it would be bad. I usually remember like for the beach or boat or outdoor music festivals but figured for the food thing there’d be shade or that we wouldn’t be there that long. There was shade but also a lot of sun. I think the worst part was probably the standing in line. I think that may have done it because my back was to the sun most of the time we were there and I was just kind of standing still or moving very slowly. But it could have been any point really. Next time I will definitely try to remember sunscreen and I will try to buy that kind. Thank you.
As for the chickens, I actually cut a hole in the divider yesterday evening as they all seemed to be doing fine. Discovered this morning one of the bigs can fit through it though! The mean one.
but it’s okay. She doesn’t go chasing them in there and she is the smallest big anyway so no one else can fit so it’s okay. Yesterday they were all out mingling but then this morning they hadn’t come outside yet lol they’re still a little scared. But I let them free range together again yesterday evening and then locked them in the run together since they were all in there anyways so I tested it and locked them in before I cut the portal and everything was fine. The bully did chase them a couple times but not nearly as much. I think because she had just been bullied away from some scratch and put in her place lol cause when they’re free ranging she is often by herself and feels like the big honcho but when they’re all together, the other bigs reminded her that she is NOT. LOL and the other bigs were all fine with them. Even let them stand in the food bowl lol even my Australorp who is usually a pig with food went to go eat and one was in the bowl and she just let her and walked away lol so they are all fine except the bully. Then later at bedtime the littles were outside in the run screaming their heads off cause they couldn’t figure out how to get back to their area even though the bigs had just gone in and they saw them and the littles also had no troubles with the ramp earlier. So I went out and opened the back door of the coop and called them and in they ran lol and then one of them (my boldest little one) jumped right up on the low roost (we have roost bars but most of the girls sleep in the rafters so the little was on the actual roost). Then another one jumped up with her. But then the first chicken “chickened out” pardon the corny metaphor lol but that one went back to the baby roost with her sisters and the one that jumped up second stayed and in fact went high up. She’s so funny, at first she flew into the window, she thought she could perch up there lol then she found the low roost then she flew up and found the eaves and was just perching on the top of the wall then she found the rafters right above that and flew there but then she flew to one closer to her sisters that the bigs can’t fit on with the divider up and then she was pacing back and forth on the wall and the big girl roosts at first, I think she wanted to go back with her sisters but couldn’t figure out how to get down, but anyway, then she ended up back on the big girl roost way up high on the rafters and settled in. And the big girls just did nothing and let her. And even when they first were on the low roost, both Orpingtons were also on a low roost but on the one behind hers so I thought for sure that they would fly forward and chase her off and be mean since they weren’t that far away and one of the Orps is the mean one (the other one doesn’t care). But nope. They totally left them alone. Much to my surprise. Lol even my Barred Rock who was in the nest boxes when I went out there and so was just getting on the roosts with them was fine. Rooster right next to them ha but of course like I said one went back to he baby roost lol and actually they all were until I went out there with a flashlight lol and then today they mostly stayed on their half and didn’t even venture out lol poor things. I am sure they will get there on their own time. I want to place them on the big girl roost tonight and/or take out the little roost or even the divider but I don’t wanna rush things haha I want them to do it when they’re ready. And I also do want them to have a safe zone. But they’ve also been out there since they were just over a week old (8 days old, put them out the day after they turned a week old) and they turned 6 weeks old today. So they should be plenty old enough and big enough. I wanted to have them mingle with the portal at 3 weeks old and be fully integrated by 4 weeks but then I again “chickened out” LOL they just seemed soooo small. But now they are huge. Well still seem a little small to me. But probably plenty old enough to integrate? And they have been next to each other for 5 weeks and free ranged together like 4 or 5 times over the last like week. So they should be okay?? Idk. Makes me nervous still lol
maybe with time they will mingle more ha 
on the roost closest to them and two others on the one behind that. 
