Chicks & mother hens

until she gets bored, but she may return.
Mine are in a coop with run area with a ramp down. They only go upstairs at night. Currently 2 weeks old. She was giving them grass at 2 days, but all on chick crumb.

Six weeks or so must be quite common, that's when my broody usually stops looking after her chicks. I never bother to separate her and the chicks from the others, but then I only have 3 chickens and they are all softies, the other two dont really peck the chicks (they might give them the odd warning peck but they dont hurt them). Like Prod my chickens free range in a biggish space but that space is fully enclosed so I just let them run about together...but I keep mother hen and chicks in a separate bit when the chicks are really tiny because we have a sparrowhawk in the area and lots of cats!