Woman saves baby chicks by using thermal cool bag

The bag "saved the chicks' lives" during a power cut, Ms Meakin said

A woman has saved a brood of baby chicks preparing to hatch by using a thermal cool bag to keep the eggs warm.

Jayne Meakin and her partner used the bag to incubate a clutch of bantam eggs, when their home was hit by a power cut.

The insulated bag was made by Telford-based firm, Seymour Manufacturing International (SMI), which supplies thermal protection products to many of the major supermarkets.

Ms Meakin, who works for the firm, said she was able to use it to transport the incubator and eggs and maintain the temperature at a level "which saved the chicks' lives".

Jayne Meakin, left, used a thermal cool bag (pictured) to keep the eggs warm

Ms Meakin, finance and human resources manager at SMI, said she believed she would have lost the chicks without the use of the thermal bag.

"I was so worried about the eggs and just didn’t know what to do – but then I realised that one of SMI's products could be just what I needed to come to the rescue," she said.

"After a couple of nerve-wracking days, we saw the first signs of the eggs starting to hatch and one by one the chicks emerged."