Hello
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Have a nearly 5 week old lamb whose mum wasn't able to feed it. A local farmer tube fed colostrum and the first feed, gave me a bottle and told me to feed it every 4 hours with 200ml. The lamb being very weak, cold and wet got the only treatment I knew what to give and that is how I nurtured my babies. It was doing really well until just over a week ago when it became sick, took it to the vet who administered antibiotic and pain injections also liquid paraffin. It slowly picked up and after a week was back to being healthy. This threw out the feeding programme as it went off the feed (bottle). I have no idea how to look after lambs, the owner has abandoned me so have relied on the internet for feeding programmes. So many different instructions but I got the feed from 200ml x 5 times a day to 400ml x 5 times a day (yesterday) then read that this was too much so today the lamb is getting 400ml x 4 times a day. He shows no interest in the pellets another farm sent over via the owner and sometimes the lamb will nibble grass but he seems to like buttercups, daisies and other flowers in the garden. I keep him in the utility room at night as I have badgers, foxes and pine martins in the Woodland next to the garden, during the day I try to give him the freedom of the garden but he can easily escape so have to pen him which is not good for him. He will eventually go into a field but fear him being picked on by other lambs and Ewes or being easy target for predators, and will he need any protection against ticks etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am totally in the dark about bring up this lamb and am using my instinct only, I am 71 years of age and struggling. Thank you.
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