Sunny K.

How has your first Baby Warm incubator helped you?
My first Baby Warm incubator has allowed me and my rehabilitation clinic at Audubon Sharon to dramatically increase the number of patients we have been able to admit, treat and release. So far in 2018, we have admitted over 900 patients- that is over 150 more patients than before the Baby Warm incubator! Our ability to raise newborn wildlife through to release has been revolutionized. This includes raising healthy hatching songbirds right out of the egg, 7 gram Eastern Grey Squirrels, 14 gram Virginia Opossums and many other neonate mammals, with very little difficulty that was previously from trying to provide proper heat and humidity. We use our Baby Warm incubator not only to provide life-saving heat to wild babies, but also for stabilization of adult songbirds and small mammals who are in critical condition.

How will this additional incubator help?
The time between being found and arriving to rehabilitation is the most critical period for orphaned and injured wildlife. This is the "life or death" period where supplemental heat is critical for the baby to maintain body functions so further life-saving measures can be successful once it gets to our facility. It is during transport where the conditions will "make or break" the baby animal. Most failed rehabilitation attempts are due to the baby's body temperature dropping critically low, often due to the length of time it takes for it to travel to our facility. We are the main songbird rehabilitation in Connecticut and are in an isolated, rural corner of the state. Our average transport time being around an hour and it is difficult to keep a baby as warm as it needs to be with makeshift heaters. This incubator will completely eliminate the risks of babies cooling during long transports and increase the success of rehabilitation nestling songbirds and mammals.