We are hand rearing a rejected lamb, the ewe had a very difficult birth, we put the lamb to the ewe not long after birth, where the lamb managed only a little feed,
we believed the ewe and lamb had bonded, and left them to it,
the following day, there was no sign of the lamb and after thorough searching concluded the lamb was lost or dead.
About 36 hours after the birth, we found the lamb, wandering aimlessly among the other ewes, we again tried to reunite the lamb with her mum, but it was to no avail.
We brought the lamb into the shed and have been feeding her "Golden Frisky" ewe replacement milk as per instruction on the package,
the lamb fed well at first, she was alert, bouncy in a quiet sort of way, and appeared reasonably healthy for her age, but yesterday things started to go down hill rapidly.
The wee lamb is shivering constantly, despite having her own pen, with loads of lovely fresh straw,
she has blood in her stools, the blood is red blood, her water works are fine, but the stools are definately not.
We cannot get Hay, for love nor money in our area, we offered some sheep grain but she hasn't touched it and now she is refusing the milk.
Can anyone advise? she is such a lovely wee soul and did well to survive thus far, we really don't want to lose her.