I agree, if you are feeding the recommended amount on the replacer bag,
it is about twice as much as Blackbellies need. If using milk
replacer, only use Land o Lakes or Merrick. Dumore has beef fat to
make the fat test and it is not digestible. The lamb will grow until
about 9 months
Lee Ann. One question. How often are you feeding them? And are you feeding them
at night as well? I'm not very experienced raising lambs but I've had a few
rounds of bottle babies, and they always had diarrhea because I was told by a
local breeder that I could just stuff them full of formula a
what are you using for formula?
If the scours are a greenish tinge, have them checked for coccidiosis.
I don't buy the powdered formula. If you alter the formula ratio to water, you
change the osmolality of the milk and could lead to scours. I fed mine whole
milk from the grocery store. They
