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Cold milk ad lib for pet lambs

  • 19-02-2017 10:48am
    #1
    390kid
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    Has anyone on here any experience of rearing pet lambs on a cold milk ad lib or making a warm milk feeder. Ive tried to foster him with no luck and just haven't the time to be going with the bottle 4 or 5 times a day


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    rangler1
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    390kid wrote: »
    Has anyone on here any experience of rearing pet lambs on a cold milk ad lib or making a warm milk feeder. Ive tried to foster him with no luck and just haven't the time to be going with the bottle 4 or 5 times a day

    Yea use cold milk here, we've a bucket with a teat, we feed them their feed warm for 2 or 3 days through the bucket and if they're drinking well we drop the temperature and leave the bucket with them and they eventually suck it as they want it,
    you can get buckets with three teats that can be left with 8 -10 lambs


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    DJ98
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    Will lambs just drink what they require or will they keep drinking until its empty?


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    390kid
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    Yea use cold milk here, we've a bucket with a teat, we feed them their feed warm for 2 or 3 days through the bucket and if they're drinking well we drop the temperature and leave the bucket with them and they eventually suck it as they want it,
    you can get buckets with three teats that can be left with 8 -10 lambs
    Good man rangler thanks very much. Is it just a normal teat bucket you use? And when would you wean them off it?


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    rangler1
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    DJ98 wrote: »
    Will lambs just drink what they require or will they keep drinking until its empty?

    they will just drink as they want it, we've reared a lot of pets here and most would be as good as their siblings on the ewe
    It's important that they don't run out of milk,
    We wean when they are eating 250g meal/day for three days and are over 35days old
    It's a normal teat bucket with a lamb teat on it, there's soft teats and hard teats.....start them off on the soft teat until they start chewing it off and the give them then hard teats


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    rangler1
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    Our buckets are the same as these, but we also have one with one teat that's ideal for training them before they go in with a big bunch.
    The brackets that come with them are rubbish, I make brackets from steel on an adjustable slide that can go up and down as they get bigger

    http://www.tannertrading.co.uk/lamb-feeders-and-teats/lamb-feeder-bucket/


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  • #7
    Grueller
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    Just to hijack this thread. I have 2 pets got for my youngsters. Is twice a day at say a pint a time enough for circa 1 week old lambs? What age to start nuts?


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    Lambman
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    Grueller wrote: »
    Just to hijack this thread. I have 2 pets got for my youngsters. Is twice a day at say a pint a time enough for circa 1 week old lambs? What age to start nuts?
    Soon as u can on nuts for ur own sake on milk theyd be better fed more often like 4 times a day getting around maybe just over a litre first few days up till 4 500ml feedings within 2 weeks as they get used till it.


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    rangler1
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    Lambman wrote: »
    Soon as u can on nuts for ur own sake on milk theyd be better fed more often like 4 times a day getting around maybe just over a litre first few days up till 4 500ml feedings within 2 weeks as they get used till it.

    Lambs digestive systems aren't made for big feeds or long fasts...much like a babies, The ad lib seems to suit them much better.
    Lamblac etc has been a huge help in rearing pets, cows milk killed more pets in the past than anything else


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    arctictree
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    Little and often (4 times a day) is much better than a big feed twice a day. If you can't be around for one of the feeds its better to leave them hungry than to overfeed on the earlier feed. I learnt the hard way and killed a number of lambs by bloating them with too much in one feed.


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    rangler1
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    arctictree wrote: »
    Little and often (4 times a day) is much better than a big feed twice a day. If you can't be around for one of the feeds its better to leave them hungry than to overfeed on the earlier feed. I learnt the hard way and killed a number of lambs by bloating them with too much in one feed.

    I haven't bought any Lamlac yet but from memory there's recommendations of the feeding requirements at the different ages written on the side of the bag.

    http://www.lamlac.co.uk/blog/19-feeding-lambs-milk-replacer-getting-it-right


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