[Rosemary]

We're bottle feeding two tiny lambs born on Monday. I confess, at 54, the 2am feed is killing me 

Beats me why any woman would want to have a baby at this age. Mother Nature invented the menopause for a good reason 

[Possum]

Couldn't agree more! I reared three orphan lambs last year, for the first time in about twenty years. Felt half dead most of the time. it's Ok when you are in your twenties and thirty's but much more difficult in your fifties. Particularly when OH is incapable of waking up and doing anything at 2am, so it is all down to you.

[Sbom]

We feed at eleven and five and never lost one yet to starvation! Stay in bed!

[Bionic]

When I had 4 orphans last year I stayed up watching tv until 2am. That worked better for me than going to bed and getting up again.


OH used to get up and do a 6am feed so that I could have a bit of a lie in

[devonlady]

In my 50's I would have hated to have to get up but now, at 66 I wake every few hours in the night and read my book. I would as well be bottle feeding a lamb or five. Pity you don't all live nearer!

[Herdygirl]

I had never had a night feeding lambs til i was in my fifties  .  We did as Sbom did, but put a hot waterbottle in with them (and a big teddy  )  worked fine.

[Lesley Silvester]

I've only once bottle fed a kid and she was five weeks when I bought her so fine without the night feed, thank goodness. I just hope my girl who is currently in kid looks after her own so that I don't have to.

[SallyintNorth]

I can't be doing with the middle-of-the-night getting up, dressed and going out to the byre any more, so I have a large dog cage in the sitting room.  They get their last feed immediately before I go to bed (and I've usually had a few hours in the chair before that ), and I can give them another as soon as I get up in the morning.  If they really need a small hours feed, I can do it in me jimjams and hardly wake up . 

[Hellybee]

I must Baz has been amazing with middle of night feeds and checks, trooped through it.  I do last thing at night, hay, water, feeds.  He doesnt have to do 3 am now so he feeds again when he gets up first thing.


We had them in the house last year but we have a crazy puppy now and it just wouldn't work.  But we have lamps n leccy n dog cage at the ready if need be in my stables.

[Rosemary]

Having them in the house isn't an option as they are with their mum.

However, in the early hours of thsi morning, at least I had the opportunity to check the election results while the bottle was warming 

[mowhaugh]

Human baby much easier - I sleep, she helps herself!

[sabrina]

I fed at 11pm and 5am.

[shygirl]

I fed at 11pm and 5am.

yep, same here.

[Rosemary]

I fed at 11pm and 5am.

yep, same here.

Too teeny for that yet. Soon though. Hopefully 

[oor wullie]

Was at the mart last week and watched an older gent buy 8 orphan lambs, he had a really mischievous grin in this face. 

The 2 women he was with had a look of total horror and their jaws hit the floor when the hammer fell.  I think they all knew who was going to be feeding them!