2021, Waiting on lambs!

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Trying to get the bottle ewe to realize that she's a sheep...
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Patchie eweling has a weak neck, Latte lambs a bit slow to nurse, all 4 got colostrum replacer yesterday. Patchie eweling is getting milk replacer, got a vit+selenium oral gel today, too.
Let Yamcha and lamb out. I'm keeping the gate tied shut & jumping it, so, all should be fine...lol
 

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My big bottle ewe is 2 and still tries to jump up on me occasionally 🤦‍♀️

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My first bottle baby, Lolla, was always a little more friendly.
Last year's triplet eweling I kept and supplemented with a bottle, she went through a "leave me alone" phase and is now more friendly, but still a sheep.
Maybe it's because I try to make sure they grow up a sheep, outside, doing sheepie things, IDK. But this lamb will also calm down, she's getting nothing from her mom, so she'll be more clingy for awhile longer.
Worse yet, I can't let her and her mom out! Because she will find a way out and try to follow me. Hopefully, I can get her eating alfalfa and she will not be as obsessed with milk. I tried cold milk freely available, but she chugs it. Ugh. Cannot switch her to it and detach from me early because of that.

Edit.
Didn't finish my point.
Point is that I don't have the bottle sheep problem.
But...
I do have adult sheep, gotten as lambs or adults, raised on dams, that can be overly friendly and such. So many bruises on my feet and legs...lol
 

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Let Eloise and her twins out.

The 2 bottle wethers have gone home.

I'm searching for hay to buy! Eek!!

Just have Peri eweling on the bottle to care for. Will try setting up the bottle holder in her creep area and hope she uses it. Tied two bottles up last night, but it looks like someone rubbed them down and then yanked the nipple right out...lol. Probably Peri, she's been rubbing her head on the bottles while I feed the lambs the last couple of days.

Latte twins look to be doing good, too.
 

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Wide angle does odd things...Eloise & Yamcha w/lambs. They're like...compressed looking? Lol
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Fluffed and moved hay over to shrink panels around it. Need to get some new bales or buy a lot of grass pellets...
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