Has it really only been two weeks?!?!?!? The chickens have grown so much and it seems like they have just been here forever. Ammon and I cleaned out the brooder coop today. We tried to put them in a cardboard box while we swept. We thought that would be less traumatic for them. Apparently we were wrong because every time we'd put one in the box and turn around to catch the next one, the first one would fly up out of the box and go back into the brooder coop. After a few tries, we gave up and let them just be in the coop while we cleaned. They are going to have to get used to it anyway. I'm not boxing up a bunch of full-grown hens every time I have to clean the coop. It's not worth the effort it would require.

I took this video of them after I finished cleaning the coop. I just used my camera, not my video camera. I didn't realize it recorded sound, too.
I've started to come up with names for them, but haven't told the kids any of them until today. Today I told Ammon that the black chicken's name is Beauty (if she turns out to be a hen.) I was tired of feeling embarrassed every time he'd talk about her because he'd call her by her breed which is Black Sex-Link. It was a little disconcerting when he'd run to the house shouting at the top of his lungs things like, "Mom, the black sex-link just flew up to the roost." Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like my 10-year-old son shouting out that "s" word for any reason.