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Update. Our lamb is 4 weeks old. he is growing and eating great, his episodes which usually occur now when he’s sleeping seems to be less. We had a vet come out finally (finally found one locally), yesterday she said everything was normal except his heart rate at times was irregular. he has...

Thank you for brining this up. I have been mixing the milk with Luke warm water not hot.. I’ll start this ASAP. I’ve been feeding him cold milk since day 3 but thinking I should warm it for him and if there’s any left over to throw out instead of putting back in fridge ( cold bottle) I am...

she says she is and spent time on sheep farms while in school, but I honestly do not think she knows much. Told me all the info on raising lambs is on sheep and goats.com. 🙄 I won’t offer the creep since I think it’s a waste at this time. Good news is he perked up and has eaten 4 ounces since...

So I took his temp 102.2 this am respiratory rate is normal. He was fine until like 6 pm last night when he started not wanting to suckle the bottle... usually at night he drinks about an ounce every 2-3 hours... last night he woke up every 2-3 hours but would barely intake he had 2 ounces all...

I am going to do nutri drench again in am. Yesterday until this evening he was doing well. Now not eating well. I finally got an ounce in him in the past 4-5 hours... he just chews the bottle doesn’t want to drink which hasn’t been an issue until this evening.... do you think that I can use...

His heart rate has been normal respiratory rate normal and temp normal. Everything normal other than past two days a little more fatigue and then the episode yesterday in yard. no episode today.

He’s a NM DAHL He’s about 1/2 the size if not 1/3 size of my other lambs. Though he is growing. He’s eating every hour about 1-2 ounces. He doesn’t like to take too much at a time. I gave him some sheep nutri-drench this am, and that definitely gave him a pick me up. He hasn’t had an episode...

I posted a Separate thread but no one answered. Thanks for answering. I gave him 5g of jump start this am. Other than that nothing but the colustrum and milk replacer.

I have my first bottle fed lamb. He was very small when born and rejected. I feed him colustrum the first 24+ hours. About 1-2 ounces per hour. Then switched to lamb milk replacer. He’s eating 16-24 ounces per day divided feeding every 1-2 hours. he poop this am is more soft then it has been...

We had a lamb born on Monday 6 days ago. Mother rejected, so we decided to bottle feeding him. He is very small about 3 pounds. He is eating well(1-2 ounces per hour) voiding fine, and stool is normal. Last night I noticed he had an episode where he was laying down seemed to not be able To get...

My Nm Dahl ewe had a lamb the night before last. Baby was fine in am, she was eating walking fine. Last night she seemed to be good. This am I noticed she had diarrhea. And the mom is trying to get her to nurse and I did not notice her nursing during my am feedings. I gave her probiotic for...

Good morning We had a baby early am or evening last night.... I came out in am and there was a baby. I have not seen the baby feed this am... mom has milk, baby has peed and pooped in front of me.. but I don’t know if he’s feeding. I was able to get some colostrum in him, but should we be...

Good morning She died over night.

Congrats! Very exciting.

Found a vet that would see her, had to put her in the cab of the truck to get her there, but they treated her with a Pain med, anti-inflammatory and kaopectate. I gave her a some probiotics in gel form. Now it’s watchful waiting I am hoping she eats and starts drinking.

Good morning The evening before yesterday my ram rammed through our gate into our chicken area and our 3 ewes and him got out. They went straight for the chicken coop and gorged them selves on chicken feed. 2 ewes had diarrhea the ewe who is further along probably about 4 months pregnant is...

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Hi. I have NM Dahl sheep. When I first brought them home they were wild. I started everyday going into their pen area ( at first I kept them in a horse stall with a small fenced pen area), I feed them grains first it was out of a bucket, then out of my hands. I would sit quietly with them...

Hi I am just reading some replies to the thread. Funny that I am reading this reply this week. All my sheep have become pretty friendly and like to have their heads scratched, but recently my ram gets “frisky” “agitated” when he gets his head scratched or rubbed and touching his head has...

Hi everyone Update about 1 month later. We refenced the lamb area with 5 foot horse fence, and have had no problems with them getting out. They are settling down. They will come up to me and my boyfriend even take grass or weeds from our hands. I think with time they will fit right in. I’ll...