Broody hen getting picked on

[8littlechickens]

We're just nearing the end of our first year with chickens and this is our first experience with a broody hen (we just have layers, no roosters, so this poor girl is being a good little mama for nothing...) Our Welsummer turned broody at the end of last week and now (this started a couple days after she turned broody) when I kick her off the nest a couple times a day the other girls peck at her and she puffs out her feathers at them. Is this normal? Anything I need to do, or will they sort it out themselves/not really do any damage? Will they go back to normal once she's done being broody, or is she now the hen to be picked on?

 

[Beekissed]

Its normal and they will sort it out.

You might separate her from the others(after darkness has fallen)and give her a nest by herself and let her sit for awhile...then go to TSC and buy her a baby or two to slip under her(again, under cover of darkness)so she can raise herself a family.