Introducing 5 week olds to 10 week olds

[Jessd0911]

Good morning! Here for some advice. I have 12 10 week old birds and 4 5 week olds. The last couple of days I’ve tried to introduce them and it’s not going well. The first part of the day I kept the babies in the coop with the outside door shut and the big girls have been staying in the covered run. Around 5 I’ve been opening the door and letting them around each other and that isn’t going well. I have 3 bigger birds that keep ganging up on the smaller ones. They’ll chase and even corner the smaller ones. I don’t have means to separate them so I’m curious if anyone has any magic answers here. I know pecking order is normal but how do I handle this? At what point do I intervene?

 

[mcdze]

theyre not too vicious that young ..id regulate food supply, keep them hungry and feed them together .. theyll probably get along fairly quickly except maybe roosting spots .. but yeah, i do t think theyre mature enough to exert dominance to the point of physical damage past a peck or two ...