Скачать или смотреть Day 9 - Hand feeding baby zebra finches & cleaning out my 'brooder' box.

The traditional way of thinking is to keep the birds in an electric brooder box - this makes the constant feeding very difficult to do while managing the rest of my life as the brooder box is stuck in one place

One day I got the idea that it actually doesn't take a whole lot of heat to keep them warm if the heat is directed at their bodies and devised this as my on-the-go brooder box.

It's basically a small cardboard box, a towel to take up the slack, a ceramic food dish, a chemical hand warmer, and some cotton balls/layers of fabric to allow the warmer to breathe/radiate heat, and some fabric to gently cover the chicks.

The box lets me take the chicks with me when running longer errands and I keep a syringe filled with formula in the thermos.