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My little post - hatch incubator is made from an eight bottle wine cooler - nice window/door, a light, some heat tape and a fan. If I'm staggering I use it to dry chicks in and get them strong enough for my staggered age brooder or to watch or treat chicks wierd at hatch. I got the...

Since you have to handle him, yeah pinch off the cord for several seconds then snip it off. If it seeps hold a bit of wash cloth to it, but if you pinch hard for a bit they don't generally. And just keep getting him warm with the dryer - otherwise his organs will shut down.

89 is still too cool and the chick won't dry at that humidity. That humidity + damp chick plus low temps can equal a pretty quick death.

That's cool enough to kill it - get out the blow drier and warm it up while the incubator reheats. Use it on low, keep it moving so you don't over heat any spot, fluff with a wash cloth corner and just keep it warm and get it dry.