We added goats milk like you said and on day 2 she seems to be a lot
more responsive to the bottle. Not sure if it's the goats milk, or if
she just got hungry like you said but so far she seems to be on track
to get her 10% body weight for today. She's feeding a LOT more and
already seems more
For future information, you can view a good video on tube feeding a
lamb here (they use a goat kid, but it is the same principle):
http://blackbellysheep.org/how-to-videos.html There are videos for
bottle feeding and tube feeding on that page.
Also, since we are getting into lambing season,
I'm no expert, but I've raised two rounds of bottle babies.
when I want to bottle-feed, I isolate the lamb from the
normally-feeding lambs. The rejected lamb will get signals from the
other lambs that food is there, as long as you try hard enough. They
also will think the sheep are their friend
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
Bob:
Most of the milk replacers are 1 part replacer to 2 parts water. I don;t
think Manna Pro is that much richer Might be I would add more
replacer, and get the nipple in her mouth and give the bottle a little
squeeze. Also be sure you are using a pritchard teat nipple. It is the
