Getting lambs to drink ( from a bottle)

[Bury the Trash]

You know how they sent a monkey into space in the early rocket days well that would be a good thing to do with tame lambs lol

 

[Flossie]

Thank you, from both me and Muleman. If I can help somebody, as I go..............

No, thank you
Tonight she came to the bottle and supped like a proper pet lamb. I've been feeding her mate, then wrestling with her using the same bottle.
Tomorrow I'm going double barrelled......2 bottles, 2 teats, 2 lambs.......more than halving feeding time

 

[Devil's advocate]

I think it is essential to get new borns on the bottle as soon as possible. Tubing gets you out of a bind at 3am when it's all going pear shaped and there are 2 more with hung lambs and 1 with a leg back but I think they need to suck very early or they forget what nature programmed them to do.
If you're taking trip's off and into a holding pen waiting for a single try to find 5 minutes to give it a bottle rather than pour 120ml down a tube.
Don't ask me what the secret is for 3 week old lambs....they are worse than an emo for wanting to pine away.

Sorry disagree.

If you think you can foster a lamb in a few hours use the tube. A new born lamb imprints very quickly & if you bottle feed it will go for you not the foster Mum, especially if she kicks.

I do bottle hogg twins asap with a mix of artifical & colustrum from the hogg. The little beggars learn to drink from one side only very quickly. I try to remove them from the hogg at 4 to 6 hours of age. With triplets on a ewe, I tend to let them have 24 hours with the ewe.

I've had very mixed results leaving hogg twins on, much rather rear one & know that all three should grow into healthy strong animals.

 

[livestock 1]

We have a few in a pen which won’t suck sharp little lambs just don’t suck been on tubing them

 

[Flossie]

No, thank you
Tonight she came to the bottle and supped like a proper pet lamb. I've been feeding her mate, then wrestling with her using the same bottle.
Tomorrow I'm going double barrelled......2 bottles, 2 teats, 2 lambs.......more than halving feeding time

Talk about mess with her head 🫣 Big, dead single this morning, meant a change of plan

 

[David.]

Sometimes you get a lamb that just will not suck.
Tapped one on the head recently that my wife, who has the patience of Job, had been nurturing for nearly a month. Bottles, catheter just enough to keep it alive, all to no avail. Went out one morning to find it laid out.
Probably for the best, can't help something that won't help itself.

 

[ladycrofter]

Brain damaged no doubt.

 

[Moors Lad]

Brain damaged no doubt.

Quite common with ovines .. Spring like this makes me think we`ve got to be a bit that way to keep the blinkin` things too...

 

[Flossie]

Quite common with ovines .. Spring like this makes me think we`ve got to be a bit that way to keep the blinkin` things too...

It's like childbirth. They make the end result cute so that you forget all the shite of actually getting there 🫣

 

[livestock 1]

I’ve just come in from feeding the pet lambs and 3 out of the 7 that weren’t sucking are sucking the bottle now some not enough but they are on the mend will put water and meal In tomorrow as well

 

[primmiemoo]

It's like childbirth. They make the end result cute so that you forget all the shite of actually getting there 🫣

I bought a pack of Milton tablets to sterilise the tubing kits and lamb rearing equipment one year, and Boots sent me vouchers for baby things for ages afterwards

 

[Grassman]

Stomach tube and sell as cades as soon as possible

 

[Bury the Trash]

i like mowing the lawn about as much as tame lambs so them buggers are having their pens put out there....

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