[Missy]

This is a first for me - early hours of this morning 4 lambs born to my ryeland ewe.  First 2 tiny and took a bit of reviving - 3rd tiny but ok and 4th quite big and stuck with one front leg behind again.  Made sure all had colostrum and 6.30 this am - fed 2 who looked the most shivery. Under heat lamp.  One doesnt look that bright I must admit.

Is there anything else I should do.  I cant foster one on to anything as triplets and twins.

I thought I would just feed whichever one of the quads looks most in need or would you separate and feed two?#

I always worry that I have damaged the ewe as I did have to pull quite hard with the last one.

[bj_cardiff]

I've never had any success leaving triplets on ewes. My experience is that the ewe gets pulled down very fast, or that the realises she didn't have enough milk and abandons/rejects a lamb. I've had that rejection happen at up to 2 weeks old. It was sad to see.

Any triplets I take the smallest one off, or if there's a choice I'd take the ewe lamb and put it in a dog crate with a heat lamp for a couple of days until its used to the bottle.

[twizzel]

You can pull quite hard and not damage a ewe. It's when you go rooting around inside to find a lamb/leg/head that the damage can occur. It would be worth giving her a jab of metacam and antibiotics just to be on the safe side. Anything that's had a hard lambing/intervention (more than just a pull) here gets it as soon as possible. Growing triplets/quads can take it out of a ewe just the pregnancy alone, so I wouldn't ever turn a ewe out with more than 2 lambs. Seen it happen with leaving triplets on a ewe and not only do you end up with 3 small lambs at the end of summer but a ewe that's been run down and the risk of mastitis. I had a set of triplets this year took the biggest lamb off to leave 2 even sized lambs. Big lamb is flying on a bottle and the other 2 are doing very well on the ewe.

[SallyintNorth]

Owning my 'Like' of twizzel's post.  I'd absolutely take at least two off.  a) they'll be company for each other - a solitary bottle lamb won't do as well as one that has company of its own kind.  b) Like twiz, I have many times had problems with a triplets mum, sometimes the pregnancy and birth takes so much out of them they're better off left with just a single, frankly.

[Marches Farmer]

I'd leave a matching size pair on the ewe and bottle feed the others.  I recommend cutting an old sweatshirt into suitable size rectangles, cutting two T-shaped holes for the front legs and putting jackets on them - it makes a huge difference to survivability over the first three days.  I'd also continue feeding colostrum to the tinies for 24 hours - the high energy value will benefit.  Feed small amounts often.  A Pritchard teat is often easier for tinies to manage.