Author Topic: Advice on how to feed cold adlib please. (Read 1600 times)

EP90 · « **on:** February 24, 2018, 05:07:47 pm »

For the last few years I’ve been given 3 or 4 lambs from a local farmer. They will be orphans or a triplet that the farmer doesn’t want to spend time on. I’ll get them at 12hrs to a couple of days old. Previously I have bottle fed till weaned. This year I would like to try cold adlib. How and when do I get them to accept the adlib bucket? I was thinking of warm bottle for a few days, then try to get them on a warm bucket, then cold bucket. How do you folks do it?

Buttermilk · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2018, 07:29:50 pm »

I start with warm bottles then reduce the temperature a bit and then give the ad lib bucket at that temperature for the first time then just make up cool milk for the bucket. I wash the bucket thoroughly every time I redo the milk.

EP90 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2018, 08:56:40 am »

Thanks for that. Roughly at what age would they be when you introduce them to a bucket.

Buttermilk · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2018, 01:08:13 pm »

5/6 days but the last lamb put itself onto the bucket at 3 days. It was in with older lambs that had the bucket in the pen. The bag of powder says ad lib after 7 days.