I have a 6 week old bottle lamb that has suddenly stopped taking her bottle.
She has dropped her feedings by 2 oz. each time for the previous three days,
now this morning and this evening she refused completely. She has been
nibbeling bark, moss, grass etc. and drank water this evening.
Could she be constipated? Have you changed the temperature of her milk?
Nancy
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From: ssja...@windstream.net
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 21:15
Subject: [Blackbelly] bottle lamb stopped taking her bottle this morning
I have
Does she have access to mineral? I noticed that some of my bottle baby lambs
this year really hit the mineral block hard at about 6 weeks of age. Will she
take just water from the bottle? Is she eating any hay or creep feed? Does
she have tapeworms?
Shel
Weeds seem to be outrunning the sheep (4 sheep/1 acre) at the moment, They
only eat a couple of hours a day and the rest is siesta time. Guess we will
have to wait a whole year to see how the balance of plant production/sheep
consumption works out. I am happy to see that they eat the (very
Shawna,
What exactly was in her bottle feed??? We found that our bottle baby liked
two bottles...one with diluted nutradrench (about a tsp of nutradrench to a
couple of ounces of water) and then his milk replacer. Lambs can be
lazy...the nutradrench gave him some liquid + some energy and
Peter,
Our flock of ewes has been very slow in shedding this year, too, for the
first time. It has been a very cold, wet late spring here in central OR. It
hailed on us yesterday and we've yet to hit 80 degs. Very unusual. Tonight
it's supposed to drop to 36 deg. Geeze.
Glad you enjoy the
hello everyone!
the mid JUL/AUG coast to coast transport trip is taking shape!
attention BOER breeders - the trip will start at the Elite Coalition
sale in Texarkana AR on July 17th - I can immediately take animals from
the sale going west, northwest, and north - I have definite reservations
