My chicken is acting crazy since I moved her

[Mister B]

I fenced off part of my goat pasture to make some free range area for my chickens. The goats have been gone for about two weeks and the place is overrun with grass and weeds and such. This new area shares about a 30' section of fence with the old pen. In the old pen, I put my 6-8 week old chicks. One of the hens goes nuts all day walking back and forth along that fenceline trying to get back. Some mornings I wake up and she will be in the pen. I have no idea how she gets in there. The other chickens were upset on day one, but they have settled down to foraging, taking dust baths, normal chicken behavior. Any ideas? Do you think she will eventually calm down? If not, I am going to have to sell her this weekend.

 

[Judy]

Some of them just adjust to change better than others. I've had one who would not stay inside the fenced yard for anything -- even though after she got out, she would pace to geet back in. Can you leave that one in with the chicks, or does she attack them? I saw that pacing behavior once in a hen who wanted to mother the chicks on the other side of the fence -- which she did, for about a month, when I let them in together.

I've also watched them "climb the fence." They half walk, flapping a whole lot, up the fence til they can hop over.

 

[Mister B]

When I went to get her out, she did the same thing. I know it stresses her to keep doing that. She doesn't attack the chicks. Mostly she paces back and forth to get back with the others. The rooster gets upset as well because she is on the other side. I checked my boxes and apparently she laid an egg in the old box as well. I noticed someone laid on in the new box too. I'm leaving it so they will know that is the place to lay now.