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 then die from a small heart. I would use whole milk from
the grocery store or a local dairy if you cannot get Merrick or Land o
Lakes. Livestock concepts has Merrick.
Cecil in OKla
On 3/1/2016 9:13 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
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 few times a day
and not feed them at night. So I did. Soon as I started feeding them less per
meal and more meals...and during the night... the diarrhea went away.
-MIchael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies
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On Mar 1, 2016, at 6:47 AM, Elizabeth Radi <lizr...@skybeam.com> wrote:
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 did great on that. No mixing worries either.
Just my experience from the University of life.
Liz Radi
Nubian goats
Nunn, Colorado
--- evarojoe...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Lee Ann <evarojoe...@yahoo.com>
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Subject: [Blackbelly] Help
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:29:05 -0800
My two bummers have the scours, I have tried electrolytes and probiotics, and
also watered down the formula? They are 13 days old?
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