How to keep 2 baby chicks warm on a 9 hour drive?

[lillypurrs23]

How do we keep 2 (yes, we're only getting 2) speckled sussex chicks warm for 9 hours, on the way home from a hatchery? (That means we can't use a dryer or anything like that.)

 

[gritsar]

There's a product you can buy in the sporting goods dept. at walmart called Hot Hands. Little packs of hand warmers that once activated stay very warm for hours. I've used them before when I ordered chicks for another BYC member and had to meet up with her in another town.
Please consider getting three chicks, instead of two. Chickens are very social, flock animals. Get two and goodness forbid something happen to one, you'll have a very lonely chick on your hands. Intergrating another one later may not go well.

Good luck with your chicks.

 

[Saroco]

if you have any of those hand warmers, you could put a few of those in there...

.. Just guessing, I still have a week till I get mine.

 

[Imp]

What Gritsar says. x2

Imp- Always listen to Gritty

 

[lillypurrs23]

Okay! I just need every suggestion I can get because we're picking them up tomorrow.

 

[billfields]

Hot water bottle wrapped in a towel...just take a thermos or two of hot water along to replenish/rewarm it it.

 

[Tdub4chiks]

As they said above, hand warmers, hot water bottle. Put them in a cooler for insulation (without the top of course). Put towels or blanket down. They should do fine.

 

[lillypurrs23]

Okay, maybe we'll use a cooler, right now we were just going to use cardboard boxes.

 

[VioletandBodie]

get a converter for the cigarette lighter then you can plug a lamp, or heat pad

 

[Chickenkate17]

You could use a hot water bottle and just stop once to refill with boiling water. If you don't have a hot water bottle you can use a rubber/latex glove and fill it with hot water, should last a few hours. If its day time you can probably keep the interior of the car warm enough.