Our chicks arrived safe and sound.  Madison was very excited and helped bring them home.

Each one gets its beak dipped in water after the long overnight trip from Iowa to Minnesota.

Here all 38 of them are in their temporary home for 3 days

Everything was going great.  About 2 hours later, Rich went to reset the light and found a chick "almost dead."  So... down I went to see what I could do.  A little Red Cochin Bantam was laying on its side, its eyes closed, jerking and with its little mouth open.  I gently grabbed the little chick and it was so cold.  I knew the first thing it needed was heat or it didn't have a chance.  Closed eyes on a cold baby chick are very bad signs.

So we set up a Chicken ICU using Madison's reading light and a cool whip container with a pink towel.  I couldnt find the heating pad so what we had would have to do.  I put Madison in charge of Chickie and hoped for the best.

Madison, the little animal doctor that she is, made sure that Chickie got a beak dip every 5 minutes for the next hour.  Soon, Madison was telling me that Chickie was standing, chirping away and kept jumping out of its bed.  Time to go back with the other chicks.

We lost a little black and yellow chick this am.  not sure what happened.  I found her dead then I changed the newspaper and watered and fed them.   They are all drinking and eating and pooping.  Only 3 pasted up butts which is pretty good.

Well I'm off to get Madison from Super Science Club.  Have a super day! Carol