Hi folks, not been here in a while! Just got a query - I have one orphan lamb who I am bottle feeding and another lamb born yesterday was looking very poorly and tucked up so I bought it into a stable to keep an eye on it. It didn't look like it had anything inside it so I gave it some powdered colostrum, but it stayed looking very weak and sickly and I gave it a bit of milk, which it drank. The mother seems very attentive but the lamb shows no inclination to drink from her. However, when it sees me it baas and starts suckling at my clothes! I've got the orphan in with mum and baby to keep her company, so do I just ignore the lamb with the mum and hope she starts to suckle? I was wanting to top her up as she didn't appear to have any milk from mum but now she associates me with food!
If I stop feeding her will she eventually suckle from mum?