8 week old chicks ready for full contact with adults?

[Skyleen13]

Congratulations on what sounds like success. My definition of a successful integration is that no one gets hurt. All that other stuff about them becoming one big happy flock hanging together and roosting together will come as they mature. Be patient and let them work that out at their pace.

My brooder raised chicks often don't sleep on the roosts art night until they are 10 to 12 weeks old. They may play on them during the day but don't actually sleep there until older. Until then they sleep in a group on the coop floor. Not because they are cold, they just like the company.

Mine usually don't sleep on the main roosts with the adults until they are quite a bit older. I have a "juvenile roost" that is lower than the main roosts, higher than the nests, and separated horizontally from the main roosts where they like to sleep until they mature enough to join the adults. I don't care where my juveniles sleep as long as it is predator safe and not in the nests. Nobody gets hurt and I don't have any stress about it. How could life get any better?

Not by much that’s for sure!