Mollie lamb advice

GAM said:

I have been given to mollie lambs, the ewe's milk has dried up, and the lambs have lost condition/weight, they are eating haylage.. Would it be best to try and give them some bottled milk, or just keep topping up a creep bowl?
they are about 8 weeks old, I have a small fenced grass paddock and a calf hut, would they be better off outside?
All advice will be greatly appreciated..

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Wooly said:

Take them to market and sell them.......... it will save you alot of hassel in the long term. I know you won't, but in 3 months time you will remeber this post and wish you had !!

They should survive without milk from 8 weeks old. Creep feed and grass will be better than haylage though, so get them outside.

Good luck

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GAM said:

If I had written this post last night I would have done as you suggested, yet the wife named them this morning ...

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GAM said:

I have ended up with 7 now, 5 belong to my Son, 3 pure Lleyn rams, twin Lleyn ewe lambs, and 2 texel x , they all went for the creep.. I need to get a feeder of some sort as they put there feet in it, then they don’t eat the creep!

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