Went to visit a pretty large sheep farm right during lambing season yesterday. Got a bunch of great information from a real working Shepard. Also received some great product recommendations and came home with 4 new bottle baby sheep, 3 males and a female. We paid $30 for each bottle baby, which is a lot of work, but a great way form me to increase my flock (now 10 lambs) quickly and without a lot of money. I also feel we did the Shepard a service, taking possible bummer lambs to a place where they will get some one on one attention.
The males (at least 2 of them) will stay and be the stud rams at our farm. They are healthy and hearty having been triplets but not necessarily the weak one of the bunch. One female was the weak ewe from the triplet litter, but she is eating well.
They all seemed to have gotten real colostrum from their mother but I still gave them packaged Dumare colostrum for 1.5 days (1 bag between the 4 of them) mixing 1/2 colostrum and 1/2 milk replacer for the last two feedings.
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