[FiB]

Got one just the same!!!  Tugs at my heart strings too when 'ramy lamby' (not named because he will be eaten.... good luck with that says a little voice)  tries to follow!  But he does run loopy around the feild with the other lambs and usualy finds a snuggy little hollow to sleep in, so is part of the flock.  Its the right thing for him to be part of flock, even if it is hard

[ScotsGirl]

I have reared single orphans and they also thought I was mum. They came in house, the dog washed them, played its them and licked the milk of their chin! The slept in dog crate until bigger then plastic hen house with run.  It was hard leaving them and they screamed the place down so much so that neighbours would phone me at work saying lamb had lost its mum!


I've found having two is better and now try and bottle feed and leave with mum. Even though mum knocks one around she does allow the orphan to sleep with siblings and another mum is happy to babysit. Eventually the two keep to themselves but socialise with others and occasionally hang around with one of mums.


It's just like leaving young child at nursery screaming . Really tugs at heart stringsheart strings

[Roxy]

Poor little man ....he thinks you are his mum, and you are of course.
 
I have bottled reared pygmys because one of my females is a terrible mother.  She seems ok with the females, but has nothing to do with the boys.  Seeing as she has mainly boys,  its down to me to bottle rear them.
 
I still have one of the castrated males, Finlay.  Two years later,he is very much  a loner,  Much prefers to hang about the yard than go down the field with the others.  I think he prefers human company to be honest.
 
OMG if I see Garbriel  I will be smuggling him away with me ...and you will be chasing after me wanting your little boy back