This is the incredible moment a quick-thinking hobby farmer discovered a cold, unresponsive chick and was able to revive it using a blow dryer. Chrissy Chin, 36, headed to her barn on January 22, where she discovered an unresponsive day-old chick in a brooder with other newly hatched chicks. The chick was showing no signs of breathing and was cold to touch, but Chrissy knew from raising animals that hot air is an effective warming method. The one glimmer of hope, Chrissy said, was the bird's feet would curl when she gave a slight tug on its legs, so she started using a blow dryer on the bird for the next 20 minutes. There were initially no extra signs of life, but after half an hour, Chrissy saw the bird had started to move its eyes. By 40 minutes, the chick had started chirping – an incredible transformation the hobby farmer was able to capture on video.
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00:00 I'm sweating, but I found this chick ice cold in the barn.
00:04 I'm going to try and save it.
00:06 First with a blow dryer.
00:08 It's not moving at all.
00:10 Chrissy was putting her chickens away
00:12 when she found two frozen chicks that had just hatched.
00:15 And once one of the chicks perked up
00:17 with hot air from a blow dryer, she went back for the other.
00:20 This chick was way colder than the first,
00:23 because for 20 minutes, it still didn't move.
00:26 But when its feet slightly curled up,
00:28 she knew there was still hope.
00:30 And after 30 minutes, it started moving its eyes.
00:34 After 40, it even began to chirp.
00:38 Hi, honey.
00:39 That was a really close call.
00:42 We almost lost you.
00:43 Look at you, big, strong baby.
00:47 And now, both chicks are doing great,
00:49 happily wandering around and eating in the warm laundry
00:53 room, where they'll stay until all their feathers grow in
00:56 before joining their friends back at the barn.
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