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I've had chicks younger than that go through nights below freezing with no heat. I would tend to avoid a heat lamp or any heating method with 6-week-olds unless it were truly brutal weather.

I agree, I'd try now. You never know how the hen will react. She may accept the chicks and try to mother them (not likely most of the time but with her an injured hen, who knows). She may not bother them at all. She may peck and attack them, mature hens sometimes do that. I've never been...