Pet lamb feeding
- Thread starter gerr
- Start date
Timbo
Member
- Location
- Gods County
Taking them to market.
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
Shepherdess feeder or something similar.
Or you can easily make one.
Or you can easily make one.
beardface
Member
- Location
- East Yorkshire
If they are over 10 days old just mix plenty of milk, feed it cold to keep them going to evening then repeat for during the night
- Location
- North Yorkshire
There's an "expert" on livestock price tracker thread explaining how to do it properly.
I've got 7. I had 20 last year. All bought in. All on bottles. I've got the red wire racks from Wynnstay. I feed them whole cows milk from the neighbours show cow.
The first week is a pain because they're on warm milk 7 bottles in the microwave for 8 minutes depending on your microwave. Once you've got them trained to go on the bottle and on the racks then start giving them cooler milk until its just room temperature. Mine sits in 2 5 gallon buckets in the utility room - they got a treat the other day as it was still warm out of the cow.
Fill the bottles up, put them in the racks, steer the d**kh**d lamb that wants to drink someone milk on to its own bottle and walk away. I collect the bottles and rinse them just before their next feed.
I probably over cook them a little bit and give them 4 feeds (which works out at 2 litres per lamb) a day until they're 4weeks old then gradually wean them down to nothing by the time theyre 6 weeks. If you miss a feed occasionally it won't matter they'll just annoy you when they see you next by bleating their heads off! Ad-lib hay and creep. 10 bottles are cheaper than a Shepherdess.
The first week is a pain because they're on warm milk 7 bottles in the microwave for 8 minutes depending on your microwave. Once you've got them trained to go on the bottle and on the racks then start giving them cooler milk until its just room temperature. Mine sits in 2 5 gallon buckets in the utility room - they got a treat the other day as it was still warm out of the cow.
Fill the bottles up, put them in the racks, steer the d**kh**d lamb that wants to drink someone milk on to its own bottle and walk away. I collect the bottles and rinse them just before their next feed.
I probably over cook them a little bit and give them 4 feeds (which works out at 2 litres per lamb) a day until they're 4weeks old then gradually wean them down to nothing by the time theyre 6 weeks. If you miss a feed occasionally it won't matter they'll just annoy you when they see you next by bleating their heads off! Ad-lib hay and creep. 10 bottles are cheaper than a Shepherdess.
twizzel
Member
I’ve got 12 on a ewe2 (well it’s the agrihealth equivalent). You could make one easily out of a mini suckler kit and a bucket. Mine are drinking 20 litres a day but look very well for it. Wash the bucket out and pipes at each end of day and refill with fresh milk, once all the lambs are drinking properly put cold milk in. Probably takes 5-10 minutes to do each end of day: Wean at 5-6 weeks. Creep, water and barley straw available at all times whilst on milk.
- Location
- East Sussex
Took 11 to the market this morning, triplets and quads some only a couple of days old. Made just short of £20.00.
Definitely best way of feeding them!!!!
Definitely best way of feeding them!!!!
- Location
- Herefordshire
Same here.
Me too
sticky
Member
- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Large tub, slightly smaller tub, aquarium heater, teats and non return valves with pipes are a fifth of the price of a Shepherdess. You can literally put the teats on a lick block lid, cable tie to a gate and Bob's yer uncle.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If my automatic lamb feeder, or the electric, ever goes off, I just drop the pipes from the teats mounted on a hurdle into a bucket of cold milk and leave them to it. If you use a lick bucket with a lid, you can drill a hole in a lid to cover it.
There’s no reason why you couldn’t do the same to rear a batch of lambs, just by mixing 24 hours worth of milk at a time. It doesn’t need warming once they’re used to suckling a teat.
There’s no reason why you couldn’t do the same to rear a batch of lambs, just by mixing 24 hours worth of milk at a time. It doesn’t need warming once they’re used to suckling a teat.
If I can figure this out you and @neilo are now my most favourite people in the whole wide world! If one more person tells me how cute pet lambs are I am going to be done for murder so you might be doing a double service here!
You owe me a beer
Hiko Lamb Mini Suckler 2 Teat
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