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AW You're just bein a good chicken momma!! I hope they continue to get better and this doesn't happen again. Watch their waterer and make sure they aren't playing in it.
I'm thinking condensation, but you have to figure out where it is coming from, be it spilled water+heat+covering with plastic or the outside vs. inside brooder temp. I think you sound very lucky to have caught it. They wouldn't be baked, more like steamed if it had been much longer.
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Cindi is right, much as I hate to admit it.
Maybe you should dry them off a bit with a cloth or some paper towels. Take them away from the heat and let them slowly cool off.
Chickens don't sweat they pant and the breath evaporates. Is the outside of the brooder temp a lot colder than inside causing condensation to build? I don't understand what's going on???