Regarding: >>> Message: 6 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:19:44 -0600 From: Cecil Bearden <crbear...@copper.net> Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Underdeveloped twin, (He WAS constipated) To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Message-ID: <49ae63d0.40...@copper.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Michael: If he took 4oz at one feeding I would not tube him. He sounds like he is well on his way to recovery. I don't like the trauma with tubing, I always feel that it hurts the throat. I also would bet that he becomes your "best buddy" for a while. My other bottle lambs would let my wife feed them and hold them while watching television. But not my ram Herbie that I rescued from freezing.. He would jump in my recliner as soon as I sat down in it!!! >>>> Cecil and everybody else. Bam Bam is in this enclosure, in a horse barn with a steel roof but the sides are open: http://picasaweb.google.com/mwsmotorsports/MakingBottleBabies223091014AM#5306058281107280642 and now is in a 3' circle of horse fencing with a heatlamp about 3" above his head when he stands. It has thick moving blankets over the top and partially down the sides, to help hold in heat. He can see and interact with his sibling and her girlfriends, but stays in that incubator cage, to make sure he's warm. In Northern California, it's 37• at it's lowest in the mornings, and can get to 60• in the daytime. Most nights are only down to 45• or so, since it's raining like crazy this month. Should I have him indoors? We are no really set up to do that, and also, I dont' want to separate him from his fellow lambs. I visit him a coupla times each morning, my mother in law feeds him a few times while I'm at work, and I see him a couple times in the evenings and definitely hold and hang out with him, and am now considering getting up once or twice in the night. -Michael. Perino Ranch Blackbellies. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
