I do not know what your facilities look like, especially how big they are. Facilities are both coop and run. I hesitate to give specific advice if I don't know what you are working with.
I don't give guarantees as to behaviors. I can tell you what I'd expect to happen most of the time but living animals can do strange things. I've never had a hen wean her chicks at 1-1/2 weeks. Since she is still keeping them warmed I don't think she has. But she wants to take them somewhere else for some reason. I don't know why.
My chicks do not need to be able to escape unwanted attention from the other hens. If another hen threatens her babies the broody hen gets really mad and whips butt. There have been reports on this forum where some broody hens would not do that, they are all individuals, but mine do. I have enough room for the broody to separate her chicks from the flock so a threat is a lot less likely. If yours are shoehorned into t tiny area then the risk is higher.
If you do not have enough room for the broody hen to keep them safe you are probably going to have real problems integrating them yourself when they get bigger.
For thousands of years, even before chickens were first domesticated, broody hens were successfully raising their chicks with the flock. The difference is that they were not confined to small coops and runs but had room to operate.
I don't give guarantees as to behaviors. I can tell you what I'd expect to happen most of the time but living animals can do strange things. I've never had a hen wean her chicks at 1-1/2 weeks. Since she is still keeping them warmed I don't think she has. But she wants to take them somewhere else for some reason. I don't know why.
My chicks do not need to be able to escape unwanted attention from the other hens. If another hen threatens her babies the broody hen gets really mad and whips butt. There have been reports on this forum where some broody hens would not do that, they are all individuals, but mine do. I have enough room for the broody to separate her chicks from the flock so a threat is a lot less likely. If yours are shoehorned into t tiny area then the risk is higher.
If you do not have enough room for the broody hen to keep them safe you are probably going to have real problems integrating them yourself when they get bigger.
For thousands of years, even before chickens were first domesticated, broody hens were successfully raising their chicks with the flock. The difference is that they were not confined to small coops and runs but had room to operate.
