While we cleaned out the brooder, we had a trial run on a larger space for the chicks. We took an old dog enclosure and put it in the corner of the coop and put a couple of chicks in at first to see if they could escape. They seemed OK, so my eldest sat with them and we put them all in there.

Shortly after we shot the video the chicks started to pop through the gaps! Pop, pop, pop! We had a scramble getting the chicks rounded up and putting up barriers to keep them contained. We should have shot video of that, but we were much more concerned about escaped chicks!

I was able to get the old brooder quickly cleaned out while my eldest herded chicks. Then we put the chicks back without further incident, but we will have to rethink the new space.