How do you indroduce chicks to older chickens?

[chicklin]

Hi everyone, we have 11 baby chicks and 4 older chickens. How and when do you indroduce them to eack other? The older chickens are mean to the little chicks, so we have to seperate them.

 

[ella]

They need to be kept seperate until the chicks are almost the same size as the adults, otherwise they may be killed by the adults.

I wait until the youngsters are about ready to start laying. Once they start laying the rooster will accept them into the flock-if you have one that is.

A good way to do introductions is to have them fenced seperately but next to each other so they can interact without hurting each other.