Introducing new hen...

We added another girl to our flock at the weekend, but sadly the others haven't taken to her at all - lots of jumping on and pecking, but a lot more aggressive than I've seen when introducing other hens.

I've sectioned off a third of the run for the newbie but with mesh so they can all see each other and hopefully get used to each other too but I found that in the mornings the newbie (ok I'll admit it, we've named her Peachy Puff!) was huddled behind the water feeder in the house looking like she'd had a bit of a pecking.

So now at night she's in a reasonably large cat carrier in with the others.

I plan to give it a couple more days before trying them together again and hope that by beaing around each other so much, they'll start to accept her.

Is this the right thing to have done?  We've had her since Saturday and I know it can take a couple of weeks.

Any other tips?

Thanks!

Hi
We have just introduced 2 newbies to our flock of 6.
We kept them apart  but within sight of each other for about 5 days, at first the original girls were throwing themselves at the wire to try to get to the new girls but once all that stopped we started letting them mix. We did spray the new girls with anti-pecking spray from the start and they did get some nasty looking pecking, even leading to bleeding combs  so we then put some spray on their combs too! but it soon settled and they are mixing fine now although not sleeping together yet, we are planning on putting them in the coop some night soon. 
Good luck

Thanks - yes I'd be pretty annoyed!!  Buckets sound a good idea although do they not then just get pecked at without being able to get out?

It has only been a few days so I'm not expecting miracle friendships overnight, but hopefully they will get used to each other.  I don't like the idea of keeping the new girlie in a cat carrier really as it's not disimilar to the life of a battery hen, but figured she'd prefer that to being attacked.

She also had a little speck of blood on her comb, poor thing.