Need help on merging 2 flocks.

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Hi,I have 10 chickens 4 I got as chicks and are now a year old,1of them went broody and hatched 6 chicks,the chicks are now 2 months old and it seems April,there mom wants to rejoin the original flock.She tried to sleep with them tonight but they chased her away,(pecking too)they have been in the same yard since the chicks where 1 week old.I need to have them in the same coop by winter.April is a polish mix and can't see very well everyone else does not have a Crest like hers and she is at the bottom of the pecking order.
 
To help april see, you could get her some chicken scrunchies/ headbands.
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Its adorable. But for merging them together again, build a little pen for the hen and babies to go in. You can put the pen in the run/ near the run so the flock can look but not touch mama and her babies. Keep it that way for a couple weeks so the chickens get used to seeing mama. Then sneak the mom in the coop with the other chickens at night with her babies. The other chickens will be too tired to care. This video might help:
 
To help april see, you could get her some chicken scrunchies/ headbands. View attachment 1467668
Its adorable. But for merging them together again, build a little pen for the hen and babies to go in. You can put the pen in the run/ near the run so the flock can look but not touch mama and her babies. Keep it that way for a couple weeks so the chickens get used to seeing mama. Then sneak the mom in the coop with the other chickens at night with her babies. The other chickens will be too tired to care. This video might help:
thank you for replying,can it work the other way around?
 

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