I meant that if you get rid of your EE, your next down might take over her spot and start acting up because she will then be top hen, your baby is going to be on bottom till you get more chicks in the spring. Since once you try to integrate the new ones, the top and your baby now will most likely pick on them. My top and bottom hens are the worse offenders when it comes to beating up and tearing out feathers on the newbies. I let them do it with no intervention and they figure it out in a few weeks. The youngins only get to eat when they are all out or at night when the elders go to roost, but that's how it works. From other threads, if the humans intervene, it always seems longer and harder to integrate as the birds learn if they beat up the new ones, the master chicken will come and take out the intruder.
I say play tough love and shove them all together and let the abuse begin as that is what they have to do to eventually get along. Free ranging also helps.
