thatstinks.Pretty much the same results I had at that age I think the chicks don't have the survival instinct to run away or fly up and roost. Mine would cower in the corner at that age and allow the big chickens to continue pecking them. I say the only certain way to do it is wait until they are almost full grown. Mine are slightly smaller now and still get bullied but I don't think they would be easily killedThe little ones were with the bigger ones all day yesterday. At dusk when the bigger ones went in to roost the little ones wouldn't go in, I had to put them in one by one. Today I was out working around them all day and I'm sorry to report that one of them got killed when I wasn't near by. Tonight at dusk it was the same story, the little ones wouldn't go in so I set the brooder up in the run. I don't think they were readying yet.