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I have six Brahma chicks that are around six weeks old. They were getting too big for their brooder as well.. I took my layers out of the layer coop and put the six-weekers in with Broody Brahma and her three 3-wk-old chicks. Figured she would teach them chicken manners in short order.

So far my assumption has been correct; the big kids stay in one corner and broody/chicks go wherever they want. ;) They walk a very straight line around her and I think by the time they come of size they will fit in just fine with the adult brahmas. :)
 
I have read that your chickens need to be 3/4 the size of an adult to put in the pen with them. For me, that is about 3 months old. (Unless they were hatched under a broody, in which case, the mom takes care of them and they all just fit in right away. It is amazing to see baby chicks walk right around a bunch of hens and they are ok when mom is there.....but put a few chicks from your brooder in without a mom,, never!

Rocky Rhodes and his wife just visited! He swapped some Crested Cream Legbar pullets for my two Naked Neck chicks and a cuckoo Silkie! Plus, he brought me 22 assorted hatching eggs! My DH was really not going to let me keep the eggs until I made a 'deal' with him.....It involved sex of course, so I will get to hatch the eggs and DH will be strutting around like a proud Rooster! LOL! (Anything for more chickens, right??)
 
I finally put my 5-week-old chicks in an adjacent pen to my coop and my grown ladies are literally hiding in fear from them. Chickens are so weird.

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Flowerbh said:
I have read that your chickens need to be 3/4 the size of an adult to put in the pen with them. For me, that is about 3 months old. (Unless they were hatched under a broody, in which case, the mom takes care of them and they all just fit in right away. It is amazing to see baby chicks walk right around a bunch of hens and they are ok when mom is there.....but put a few chicks from your brooder in without a mom,, never!

Rocky Rhodes and his wife just visited! He swapped some Crested Cream Legbar pullets for my two Naked Neck chicks and a cuckoo Silkie! Plus, he brought me 22 assorted hatching eggs! My DH was really not going to let me keep the eggs until I made a 'deal' with him.....It involved sex of course, so I will get to hatch the eggs and DH will be strutting around like a proud Rooster! LOL! (Anything for more chickens, right??)
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Sounds like a fair deal to me.
 
I can't believe I am saying this but I am so looking forward to taking a "hatching" break. NEVER ever going to do staggered hatching again. It is insanity and so hard to track. We lost 2 chicks, two I foolishly helped to hatch and thought where fine. They got soaked in a new brooder bin with a new waterer because I had to split big chicks from small chicks. Just a few more eggs in the bator this week and then we are done till the New Years Hatch-along!

I need to simplify! Badly!
 
I am a hatchalolic. It has been two weeks since my last hatch! Thank you Rocky Rhodes for some new eggs! I was going to set them today but realized I will be in Mobile watching my Mom and so I will not set them until Tuesday so I will be home in time for the hatch! (DH will have to put them in lockdown for me!) Enjoyed our visit yesterday! I will post photos of your cute CCLs today.
 

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