Long story, but please read need help

[LilChickenFam]

Good evening,
So to get to it, I have a few stages of chickens I'm raising, along with two coops. I have 8 hens, a rooster and 13 baby chicks. 3 of the chicks were hatched under my broody hen, and the other 10 were in an incubator. Coop A has the incubation chicks in it ( 3 week old chicks). Coop B is split into two different parts with chicken wire in between The 7 hens and rooster on one side, and the broody hen and her 3 chicks in the other( chicks also 3 weeks old) they have a seperate run just for them. Today, I get a call from my wife telling me one of the 7 hens is now going broody on 5 eggs. In need of room and protection of the eggs, I decided to take the first mother hen and let her free range again with the other hens and rooster. I took her chicks and added them to the other chicks in Coop A. With the other side of Coop B free, I moved the new broody hen to her own side and run now. Free ranging the first mother hen was hard and she fought with a few hens, but when it came to going to bed, she was the last in but surely enough she was let in to go to sleep. Did I do it right? What should I have don edifferently? It's too late to change tonight, but can change tomorrow if need be, Should I let nature handle it now and let things go? Thanks guys for helping me

 

[Eggcessive]

I think you did fine, but I always put my broody and new chicks in a "broody coop" within the coop of big girls and rooster for about 3 days. Each morning by the 3rd day, I open the door to see if Mama wants to take the chicks out. Usually that day or by day 5 she will take them out into the coop to start showing them the ropes. I hang around cleaning while I make sure they are okay, then I check on them frequently that day and the next. They will usually go back into that broody coop each evening before the others roost. After a week or two she has them elsewhere or roosting in the coop. After the first or second day of coming out with the chicks, no one seems to bother them. Usually within a couple of days they are out in the run, then out into the yard and pasture free-ranging with the gang.

 

[LilChickenFam]

When you let the broody hen and chicks out, do you have them in a run to begin with? Or do you just let the mother protect them? I'm scared my other hens with get them, One hen did peck one of her chicks that got its head stuck in the fence of the run. A few of my hens are aggrssive, my older hens were bought and not hand raised by me, they are my first chickens and I didn't want to start with chicks, so they are the head hens. I think i'm going to try what you did with the new broody hen and see if they can get intergrated together better.