Bottom pullet keeps being chased away from coop!!

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I have a 21-22 week old Easter Egger who laid her first egg yesterday! 🥳 I was so excited for her blue egg, I’ve been gathering white & tan eggs for a few weeks now, it’s nice to see a color change. But she’s one of the bottom in the pecking order & is being chased away from the coop by the leghorns, they will literally stand on the ramp so nobody can get through. She laid her first egg in the run & it was destroyed 😞 I always make sure to check the coop multiple times a day to gather eggs but she must’ve laid while I wasn't home. They free range from 3pm-7pm during the week & 1pm-7pm on weekends & I REALLY don’t want her to go off somewhere random to lay her beautiful eggs. Is there anything I can do?? We’re going to be turning the old duck run into a coop before winter hits which will have more space than this one. I won this coop+run for $107 from an auction on eBay. It’s getting a little tight for 13 bodies, & now I’ve got 6 layers. I’ve added a picture of the run-to-coop set up.
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That's great you can get them some more space, hopefully that will help but someone does have to be at the bottom of the pecking order unfortunately.. I got caught out with my lowest poor girl was chased away from coop and food so I had to keep her inside my house on her own for a bit so she could eat and get her strength up to go back out and I added multiple feeders and waterers. ..I have 11 chickens and 3 coops with plenty of room for all plus a huge run plus they have access to free range out of the run during the day... But my lowest still gets picked on! But at least she has plenty of space to run away from the others.
Not sure how you can get her to lay in the boxes though if she's being stopped from laying in the boxes. Maybe more boxes? More boxes in a different part of the coop or 2 different entries to the coop? A secret back entrance! :D
 

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