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For those of you who use a warming box or similar

 
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For those of you who use a warming box or similar, what's your set up like?  When do you find it mosr useful (symptoms and situations)  and when is it not worth a try?

Looking at improving my set up as I'm beginning to suspect the books I learned from are more utter neglect style of lambing than I want.  Curious whatother people use.
 
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Do you mean for keeping a newborn bummer warm? If so, for my bummer goat kids (that are typically quite a bit smaller than lambs), I use a cooler, with a warmed rice bag, in a big zip-type bag, tucked under a thick towel. Then instead of the cooler's lid, I top the whole thing off with another towel.

I've also used a thick cardboard box, instead of the cooler, or a heat lamp above, instead of the rice bag under them.
 
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The books say if the lambnis unresponsive to wuzzing and vigorous rubbing, a warming box will bring it back to life.  

My expierence says differently, so I wondered if I could improve my set up.

A cooler sounds useful.  I've been using old tshirt and a seedling mat as it's not supposed to get much above 25C.
 
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