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    Keeping a Brooder warm

    Hand warmers and a blanket will be my best bet since I'd have to kick it caveman style and try to build a fire when everything is wet in order to heat some water or a brick (we don't have a grill).
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    Keeping a Brooder warm

    We have bad weather coming in and out power is prone to going out. Now I do have batteries for my incubators to hook up to, but the brooder I'd just a tote with a heat lamp. What are some way to keep my little fluff nuggets warm if the power goes out (they're snowflake bobwhite Quail)? They're...
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    Chicks sick?

    Thanks for the replies. It wasn't feed related because the next two chicks are doing great and the one that was giving me gray hairs recovered when I got him in a container to keep him upright so he couldn't tuck and he's doing well. In fact he's the noises little chick I singing the song of his...
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    Chicks sick?

    I have Snowflake quail chicks that are just hatching. One has already died and we brushed it off as it getting too cold because the power went out and he got disoriented, kept flipping over and died while I was trying to figure out a brace kind of thing that helps reorentate wobbly chicks. Now...
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    Intervention: Helping Your Chicks Hatch

    I appreciate this so much. I'm of the mind that I'd much rather just TRY and help them if I can with the 50/50 chance of them making it or not rather than leaving them in their shells and *know* that they're doomed that way.
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