Hi, one of our suffolk ewes (a hog) had twins last Wed night. She seemed to take to both fine and they were both suckling when we left them. In the morning, she was butting the smaller of the lambs but tolerated his presence in the pen. We managed to distract her enough over the next couple of days so that he could feed. However, this was becoming more difficult so we took the decision to bottle feed him lamlac. They all stayed in the pen together until yesterday when we put them in the paddock adjacent to the pen. We were going to pen him at night but he bleated a lot and she got quite agitated so we put him with her and the twin - all seems to be fine and he generally sticks around them, and the twins sleep together. All good so far.
My question is (we are new to this hand rearing), in these circumstances (not feeding at all from the ewe), we are bottle feeding a litre a day spread over 4/5 feeds. Do we need to increase amount and decrease number of feeds after a week? He is behaving like other lambs so presume he will learn to eat grass in due course - do we then need to supplement him with lamb pellets? We are not aiming to fatten any of the lambs quickly so we were not intending to feed lamb supplement to any of them (we have not done so before and they weaned themselves). How long would we need to bottle feed him for?
Any advice gratefully received!