Also, Robert. I am a 2-year noob as well, but had to tube-feed a little sick one my first time around.
I would not consider trying it unless you have an expert (in our case, our vet) show you, so you can hold the animal, feel the tube going down and watch the other person do the job. Then practice it with them there. _Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Robert Jung <mrbobj...@gmail.com> wrote: > After successfully raising 10 lambs we have our first rejected bottle > baby. She has a twin sister that the mom didn't reject and every time > I tried to set her near them she got head butted. > > Over the past 24 hours every couple hours we've been feeding 1 part > kaeco Colostrum + 1 part mana pro milk replacer mixed with 4 parts > warm water (best we could figure out from the conflicting directions) > and she'll take the bottle but won't drink very much. I would say > total she's had maybe 50-75 CCs total in the past 24 hours. I read on > here that she needs at least 10% of her body weight per day. Which > for 4.8 lbs would be something like 220 CCs. She looks pretty weak > and thin and while she'll stand up and walk around she looks a lot > less healthy and happy than her sister out back with her mom. > Anything obvious we're doing wrong? > > I'm terrified of the idea of tube feeding since I've never done it > before but we are willing to give it a try if we have no other choice. > Is this the next step and if so does anyone know of a good training > video or guide or something? If you can't tell we are complete noobs > at this. > > Thank you all so much and thanks again for the great advice you give! > > -Bob in New Mexico > _______________________________________________ > 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
