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Try placing a small cage in their pen for a few days. Then sit in the pen with them and let the little chicks run about. Then put them back in the cage. Just repeat until their happy with each other.
Please check out the kindest, gentlest method of integrating young birds to older established flock, called "The Look but, don't touch," method. Done right there is NO bloodshed.
This is exactly how we introduced ours. Put the little ones in the new coop for one full day first and then put our "Big Girls" in. Worked GREAT!! The little ones approached the big girls, were gently pecked and went about their business . One week in now and all is well. You can still tell it is two different flocks but no fightingMy approach is to add the dominant birds to the subordinate birds so subordinates have home turf advantage. Add dominants singly with a one day interval between them. The young birds will still get pecked by first addition but not as much relative to being placed in with dominants. First added dominants will suppress aggression of those added later.