Help! How to introduce multiple hens with chicks to each other and the rest of the flock?

[Pardeechick]

Biggest challenge for me when running multiple broody hens involves roosting arrangements. When chicks still roosting on ground, I like to provide animal carriers or overturned buckets as roosting sites. The nesting sites are kept at least a few feet apart to reduce conflicts over roosting sites. As broods start roosting up I make so broody hens can have roosts that physically dispersed by at least a few feet.

That has been the biggest issue. Originally tried to keep them all in the same coop, thinking they would go to separate corners. They all wanted the same spot on the floor of the coop. That's why I ended up separating into three locations!

 

[Mrs. K]

A trick that has worked well for me, is at about 3-4 week, I will place a board up on my roosts. 12inches or so wide, and as long as I can fit. Within a couple of days, the broody hen will have coaxed those chicks up on that board, she is roosting with the flock, they are still cuddled up to mama, and of course, learn to roost quickly, and little trouble with the flock.