Will new Chicks and adolescents Get along in the same Coop???

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

I have 4 adolescent hens they are 7 months old (2 standard Cochin and 2 Barred Rocks). I gave 12 fertile eggs (from a friends chickens) to the cochin that acts broody. The eggs are 4 Silkies and 8 Mille Fleur D'Uccle.
The Cochin will raise the chicks in the coop run they are in...
So far 2 Silkies have hatched, if all 12 manage to hatch will the older ones get along with the new chicks well enough to be in the same coop and run?
The coop is 6 X 12 and we are going to extend the run another 6 ft out, making it a 12 X 12 run.
I don't want to have to separate them when them get older.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

No input yet???

Bumping up...

 

[animaluvr]

It should be ok just watch them the broody hen should protect the babies from the others.If she doesnt you will have to take them out.

 

[Ken F]

In my experience this year, it is very stressful for the little chicks and the broody hen to have to guard against the big girls all the time. The older pullets love chasing the chicks and the broody does fend them off, but there is a lot of angry squawking and pecking.
I recommend keeping them separate until the little ones can fend for themselves.

Good luck.

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Thank you All, the chicks decided to venture out of the nest today. They went into the run and Bar-b is the 1 that hatched them, I thought it was Que. My Barred Rock kept trying to pick on them but Bar-b kept chasing her off. Bar-b and the chicks are back in the nest.
I had to take the other eggs out, I put them in a low box, inside a taller box, under a warm moist washcloth with a 100 watt lightbulb from our brooder lamp. I didn't know what else to do I didn't want them to go cold. I so want some Mille Fleur and will do what is necessary to help them hatch, I just can't afford an incubator.
Should I take them out to Bar-b and put them under her, I know 10 of them are fertile. 2 Silkies and 8 Mille Fleur D'Uccle.
Any suggestions will help.
Thank You,
Kat


If the chicks get picked on too much I can bring them in the sunroom pen under the heat lamp.

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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