Brooding different ages and sizes?

[Raptorchick]

So, I have 7 three week old serama chicks that are ready for an upgraded brooder. I brought home a small coop that's about 4wx4lx4h with an attached nesting box, and today I plan on installing the heatlamp and some swings Three days ago I had one black copper maran egg hatch (she was in a batch of 6 cream legbar, shipping ended the others). I put her in my current tub brooder with ecoglow heater, with my 3 week seramas. Shes actually keeping up with the big kids, even tho she doesn't have feathers. They stay with her, even to sleep one will go under the ecoglow with her each night, it's actually sweet. At three days shes figured out how to hold her own when they start challenging each other, so I think shes a part of their tiny pecking order ?
I also have 14 mixed eggs (55 flowery, golden spitzhauben, ayam cemani, barnvelder) hatching in 6 daysish.
Should I move my 3day old outside with the seramas, or keep her in? The heat lamp would be out there, but shes used to snuggling up with the ecoglow.
If I keep her in, do I keep one or two seramas with her as company? All of them are extremely rambunctious, I'm not sure if they would mess with her when their friends are gone?
Or, keep her inside and alone? The new babies hatch in a week, and they will be added to this brooder ....
Baby chicken math lol....
Thanks ahead

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Do you plan to keep the tiny breed separate from the big breeds? I would probably wait until more hatch before moving the older chicks out, and add them to the new one with hopefully no problems.

 

[Raptorchick]

Do you plan to keep the tiny breed separate from the big breeds? I would probably wait until more hatch before moving the older chicks out, and add them to the new one with hopefully no problems.

I like your idea... the tub they are currently in is pretty small, so I think I'll upgrade it for this last week and keep them together until the next batch hatches, then move my seramas to the outdoor coop/brooder.
End game the plan is to keep my seramas in a small run that has a 4x4 converted doghouse coop, and the bigger normal hens in my very large coop/run. They are separated by a wire fence but will be able to see/talk to each other. The outdoor brooder/coop will be kept only for growing out chicks.
And I'll keep my maran chick with the new hatchlings when they come out, maybe she can show them the ropes? I was surprised at how accepting the 3 week olds were to the 1 day old...
Thanks for the advise

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Your older chick may become a bit of a bully to the new ones. If it does make a smaller circle of fencing, I used hardware cloth, to put around it to keep it separated. Let it out occasionally to see how it doe.

I once had one hatch 24 hours before the rest and it was a tiny tyrant to the new ones I added the next day, but with the little fence I was able to get everyone settled in a day or two.

I'm glad you are going or keep your tiny chickens separately. They will be much safe that way. Big breeds can be rough on bantams.

 

[Raptorchick]

Your older chick may become a bit of a bully to the new ones. If it does make a smaller circle of fencing, I used hardware cloth, to put around it to keep it separated. Let it out occasionally to see how it doe.

I once had one hatch 24 hours before the rest and it was a tiny tyrant to the new ones I added the next day, but with the little fence I was able to get everyone settled in a day or two.

I'm glad you are going or keep your tiny chickens separately. They will be much safe that way. Big breeds can be rough on bantams.

Thank you! The tiny fence is a great idea... when my seramas hatched there was one that popped out early, and seemed to enjoy terrorizing the others, a little fence didnt even occur to me
The seramas were far too active for the small brooder, so yesterday I moved them outside to the bigger coop/brooder. I thought I would leave one serama in the small brooder with the 4 day old BCM, but they were both crying so loud, I couldn't take it more than 30 minutes. My ecoglow brooder is out there, but I'm worried it wont keep up the temp as nighttime is around 60F right now, so theres also a heatlamp running 5pm-10am.
After my next chicks are a few days old, I'll see if I can transition miss BCM in with them. They hatch in 3ish days, so she'll be a week older than them...should be fine right? I'm more worried she'll be sad again than about her turning into a tyrant lol...

 

[Mosey2003]

I've found that standard chicks can take a little pressure from older ones after about a week, maybe two. Provided there are ample feeders and waterers and space. I'd keep the Marans with the Seramas and then add the new hatches to them two weeks later.