first time mom? if you plan to feed them, I would do it 4 times a day to start. there's a ratio of their body weight to oz. of milk to give them.
http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/artificialfeeding.html http://ars.sdstate.edu/lvstk_educate/Sheep_Management/BABY_LAMB_CARE_PROTOCOL23.htm (unless you milked the mother within the first several hours of birth, you likely do not have colostrum to give. Colostrum replacer formula/mixes are not the same thing, so save your money.) past this, it's up to the more experienced breeders to clue you in. I have had luck raising a group of bottle-babies last year, they did have mother's milk for 5 weeks, then us feeding them, but we were mixing goats' milk from the store-- with powdered formula mixed with water to it's proper ratio. They still got scours like, every 10 days or so, and it would take 5 days of treating them to get it to go away. I think it was just the formula to blame, and the big feedings, rather than the normal little natural gulps all day they would get from their mother. This year had 5 naturally-raised lambs and not one bit, not ONE little bit of scours. _MWS On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Tom Quinn <cars1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Michael > > I put the 3 of them in a really small pen, but she was butting the lambs out > of the way, and it was getting dark. > > I will keep them in the house tonight, and try again in the morning > > -----Original Message----- > From: blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info > [mailto:blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info]on Behalf Of > Michael Smith > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 8:47 PM > To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info > Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Help: Need info on bottle feeding > > > If you can get the ewe to hang in a VERY small pen with the babies, I > bet, within a few hours, she will start feeding them. > > http://web.me.com/mwsmith100/spring_2010/Angie.html > > But watch to see if she's being violent, and kicking them. > > > _Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies. > > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Tom Quinn <cars1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hi All >> >> One of our young ewes just had twins. She is not accepting them and seems >> to have no milk >> >> I just cleaned them up and bottle fed them once with Advance all species >> formula--thats all I could find right now. >> >> I need suggestions bad! How often to feed? How much per feeding? How >> long? >> >> This is our first crop of lambs >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom Quinn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list >> Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info >> > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
