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  1. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    UPDATE: I have 4 little fuzzy butts that are just too cute. Two fully formed that didn't pip. One egg I broke when the lamp fell. And l put the leftovers in the nasty LG that started working again but don't have a lot of hope. I'm just sooo thankful for my 4 lil ones.
  2. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    I wish...I even tried cpr. Its pecker was out of the membrane and stuck as both dried out. Definitely over its nostrils. Pooor baby. Silly me, but I buried him w a prayer. Two I can see moving the beaks around the pip.
  3. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    OK....UPDATE: Put a warm, damp kitchen towel on top of the shavings, under the eggs. Looks like 1 is dead with its pecker sticking out of the pip hole. See 2 definitely pipping & alive. Hoping for (please) a few more I most definitely keep y'all posted as you're officially godparents in my...
  4. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    False alarm. I do hear a few peeps & some pipping. I am hoping that all these up & down temps & movement would sort of mimic nature. If mama goes for her ablutions, she's gotta knock them around a little & temps would also fluctuate. My little chick is fine & not too cold nor too warm & hanging...
  5. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    I know longer hear chirping. Do you think moving the pipping eggs killed them? (You guys are so appreciated.)
  6. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    I'm hatching 12 aracaunas & have 12 BCMs in the Genesis who are not due to go onto lockdown until Sun. It was that nasty LGD that I was using as the lockdown for these kids that went fluey. Probably because it heard me talking bad about it!
  7. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    Thank you sooo much. When I searched for crockpot on here, the answer I saw was that even a crockpot on warm would be 140F. So I got a Rubbermate tub put down some wood shavings & attached a heat lamp. I'll be spritzing w water. So far the new chick is doing really well. And I can still hear...
  8. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    How do u use a crock pot? What do u put in bottom?
  9. coleridgedane

    EMERGENCY! hatching chicks heater fail

    I've got one chick & a bunch pipping & the heating element stopped working. What can I do to save them?
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