overly attached chicken

my Betsy, wee Betsy bum. She likes to pretend she's top bird, queen chick, like she;s all that, when actually she's the neediest, clingiest thing on the planet. She's a rescue hen and she's really been through some massive upheavals in her short wee life. Her first year must have been hell, on an intensive farm, stuck in a barn with hundreds of other birds, no daylight and no love. Then she came to me, with her 'sister', the gorgeous wee Wendy bird who sadly didn't have the strength to survive, she lasted a few loving months before she had to be put to sleep by the vet. Bets and her took to me and their new home from the start, treats every day, a lovely secure grass filled garden, a wee coop of their own and all the cuddles and love I could give them. She pined for days when we lost Wendy, so I brought home 2 more rescue birds to keep her company. They fought like hell for the first few days, Bets tried to tear the poor wee baldy creatures to bits. For the first few days I'm sure the new guys were pining for the relative 'comfort' of the intensive shed where at least they were getting pecked to bits by birds they already knew. Still with love and care and many many worms and cabbages the younger two have come on leaps and bounds. Their feathers have all grown back, they are delighted to see me and want to jump in my lap and purr all day long. Poor Betsy girl, she hates seeing me share my love around, she even still pecks the youngsters on the head as soon as she thinks I'm not looking if they've gotten too much attention or treats.
Bets is still too much attached to me rather than being a happy chicken with the other hens. When I let her out to free range she sits by the back door and cries for me all day long, She's even jumped up on the windowsill if she sees me in the kitchen and thinks she's being ignored. She is desperate to get in the house if I'm indoors and it took me a lot of effort to stop her trying to lay eggs in my house and lay them in the nest box. Unlike the other 2 who'll put themselves to bed at night Bets seems not to want to go to bed at all, and will stay out as long as she can, often waiting till I come and physically pick her up and carry her into the coop. I think she wants me to. She sits there, nodding off on the grass with a 'pick me up' stance ready to be lifted and carried. I'm sure she just wants the cuddles. She cries when I leave her and go indoors.

I really want her to be a happy chicken, she's had a horrible life and I just wish she could settle and play and enjoy her new start, but she seems so sad and scared. I don't know what chickens think, if they have nightmares, if they remember the past or if I'm just projecting but I cant help thinking she could be so much happier.

I can hear her now, crying for me. She'll cry till it's dark, then as soon as she hears me stir in the morning off she'll go again. Such a pitiful babies cry sound. I wont give in to her and bring her indoors or run to her every call, but how do I break this cycle? She's like a toddler going though the terrible twos.

I do love her to bits though, my wee Betsy bum.

Aww she sounds so sad! Is there any way to have her as a inside chicken?

aww wee thing she's like a human toddler. I've just had to lift her, cuddle her and carry her to bed again, the others were already in and snoring their wee chicken heads off in dreamland. Bless wee bets had sat on the stairs waiting on me to come and lift her. She can be such a baby, yet she's a pure horror to the others. Yesterday she was sat on the sofa watching telly with me and one of the other birds came in and dared fly up onto the chair only for bets to instantly turn and peck her on the head till she got back off and ran away. Jealous jealous girl.