Good morning folks,
If it isn’t a baby keeping me up it’s a power outage. I woke up at 4 am to the house dead still and dark. So I get up and find the battery powered lanterns to put in the master bath (where I usually have a nightlight), so I can see to take care of the baby in the night, and in Thing 1’s bedroom so he doesn’t wake up in pitch dark screaming for us. I cover the incubator with a towel to hold in heat and I lay back down. I can’t get to sleep. I knew I was forgetting something. I have 4 chicks in the lockdown incubator. So I get up and look, and because it is so humid in the incubator and it got cold the chicks were dew covered and very wet. So I rummaged around and made a temporary brooder. I keep ThermaCare heat wraps around for just this reason. I also have a box that held cheese in the freezer (we buy organic cheese in 5lb blocks, cut them up and freeze them) I take the heat wrap and put it around one end of the box draping enough that the chicks could push against it and left half the box for them to move away from the heat if it gets too hot. I then covered the box with a towel to keep the chicks from hopping out and to hold heat in. When I checked on them a little while ago, they were dry and happy! I just need to refresh the tote brooder shavings, food, water and let the heating plate warm back up.
If it isn’t a baby keeping me up it’s a power outage. I woke up at 4 am to the house dead still and dark. So I get up and find the battery powered lanterns to put in the master bath (where I usually have a nightlight), so I can see to take care of the baby in the night, and in Thing 1’s bedroom so he doesn’t wake up in pitch dark screaming for us. I cover the incubator with a towel to hold in heat and I lay back down. I can’t get to sleep. I knew I was forgetting something. I have 4 chicks in the lockdown incubator. So I get up and look, and because it is so humid in the incubator and it got cold the chicks were dew covered and very wet. So I rummaged around and made a temporary brooder. I keep ThermaCare heat wraps around for just this reason. I also have a box that held cheese in the freezer (we buy organic cheese in 5lb blocks, cut them up and freeze them) I take the heat wrap and put it around one end of the box draping enough that the chicks could push against it and left half the box for them to move away from the heat if it gets too hot. I then covered the box with a towel to keep the chicks from hopping out and to hold heat in. When I checked on them a little while ago, they were dry and happy! I just need to refresh the tote brooder shavings, food, water and let the heating plate warm back up.
Good morning Rae, have a great day. I agree with Henny that was genius. Hope you get power back quickly.
