I usually don't wean my bottle babies till 90 days but that is just a personal choice. I think it also helps when you are weaning off the bottle to start diluting the milk more and more over time until you are almost feeding water at the very end. Good luck!
Jason -----Original Message----- From: blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info [mailto:blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info] On Behalf Of Double J Farms Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:48 PM To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info Subject: [Blackbelly] Update on bottle lamb Thought I would share some experiences with the bottle lamb since I last posted (6/23). We successfully reintroduced the lamb to the herd at 7 days old. We would go down to the barn every 4 hours and feed, but otherwise we were hands-off. She adapted well and appears to be only slightly smaller than her sister. We went through a couple of bouts with scours (cut milk concentration ~50% and pepto then slowly increased milk concentration) and survived. The lamb will be 7 weeks old on 8/5. She currently gets a bottle of full strength replacer milk every 8 hours and drinks about 15 ounces in 3 minutes flat. She eats grain, hay and grass with the other 9 lambs and acts like a sheep - except that she actually comes when we call her and is not afraid of the family dog (the dog normally licks the excess milk from the lamb's face). Its getting close to time to wean and we are thinking of trying to reduce the feedings to every 12 hours for about a week and then go to once a day for about a week before stopping the bottle. Any suggestions? John Carlton Double J Farms Spanish Fort, Alabama 251-625-2519 doublejfa...@wildblue.net _______________________________________________ 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
