Boy sorry to hear that about your babies! To bad you can't hold them
responsible for your loss. I have used both land o lakes and merrick.
But I keep going with Kent. It seems to mix better and I never have a
lamb scour on it as long as I put about 2 or 3 ounces of extra water
with it at first for the first couple of weeks. I also use The
colostrum multi species replacer that comes in a green bag at our
Orschlens farm store can't think of the name right off hand. It mixes
great and doesn't constipate etc. Haven't lost any lambs from these
problems in years knock on wood. This year our Kent milk was cheaper
than other replacers at $54 a bag. I think I went through about 20 bags
because of raising our triplet Racka sheep. Good luck in the future
Nancy in Missouri
Quoting Nancy Johnson <[email protected]>:
I have used Land O Lakes with no problems.
I'm so sorry you are losing these lambs.
Nancy
On Sep 5, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> I am waiting on my 4th bottle fed ewe to die. We raised 5 lambs on
a bottle 2
years ago. Of the 5, 4 have not made it to 2 yrs old. 2 were autopsied and
found to have under developed hearts. 1 was not autopsied. Besides
being in my
flock, the one common factor was that we used Dumore milk replacer
from Tractor
Supply. I was having a difficult time getting replacer. I started using the
Dumore brand and continued in order to not distress the lambs from
changing milk
replacer. I have raised other bottle lambs on Land o Lakes and
Merrick and
the only one of these that died was from a coyote attack. I would
like to know
the country of origin of Dumore milk replacer.....
>
> Just my $0.02
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