Author Topic: Bottle lamb returning to the flock? (Read 14674 times)

ellisr · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2010, 08:43:03 am »

I have 5 orphan lambs that I was given, they are in my nursery field and have never tried to suckle from the ewes with lambs. I have fed them from a nursing bucket since I received them and never had a problem, they are now on grass and creep (still in the nursery field) I have 1 ewe still to lamb so I will put them in the field once she is ready to go back.

Freddiesfarm · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2010, 09:45:26 am »

I have an eight year old ewe - probably the oldest in our flock and she still runs over to me if I have a bottle in my hand! We bought Mumsie from someone else when she was 3 and she really probably shouldn't still be here as we tend to send most ewes off at between 6-7 years, but somehow she is!

Anke · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2010, 09:58:08 pm »

Well my bottle lambs have gone to a place where there is more goats milk than I have spare! Lamlac would have just been too much to buy for the three of them, and my goats milk is needed for the goat kids.

But in a way it was fun having them, and I do miss their shouting for milk whenever they saw me coming near the lambing shed... and my old (12 years) Shetland girl is still to lamb anytime now (but I so hope that I don't need Lamlac for her lamb(s))

Daisys Mum · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2010, 10:05:41 pm »

Wow a 12 year old shetland I thought that we were setting a bit of a record with our old Prancer who is 10 and has almost no teeth but always has twins.

Hellybee · « **Reply #19 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:20:08 am »

We have a Molly (orphan) who is one week old tomorrow, she was heard last monday crying for her mum. the scanner couldnt have picked up on her mum and so there we are with one lamb that has obviously been abandoned by her young dam. we followed the flock quietly and put Molly G (as she is now called) and stood right back to see if one of them would come forward, but to no avail, she was dry, but very hungry so we gave her colostrum, sprayed her and made the decision to bring her back to the house.

she is with us in the day as we dont want to leave her in the paddock as there is no mum to protect her, so she wander about and does the rounds with us. Shes drinking well and is a great hit with the dachs, he s really good with her. Shes been with the ewe lambs and theyre bubs as night so that she is still integrated with them and is often found curled up with some of them.

she ll be with us at the yard til she can hold her own in the field, is eating creep well and is big and strong. She ll probably go in with the others when they are weaned further down the line...then they all in the same boat.

ballingall · « **Reply #20 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:38:59 am »

Our three new additions are doing very well! However you do forget how different to goat kids lambs are. It definitely makes the kids look for their bottles more, as the lambs are so fixated on their bottles.

Beth