Teated Buckets

Surfn

i got a bucket to feed pet lambs with, it has 3 red rubber teats on it but lambs not keen on sucking it. any tips to make them suck them. thanks

_Brian

Honey often works for calves, maybe try that.

Cran

Surfn wrote: »

i got a bucket to feed pet lambs with, it has 3 red rubber teats on it but lambs not keen on sucking it. any tips to make them suck them. thanks

Perseverance TBH

rangler1

Surfn wrote: »

i got a bucket to feed pet lambs with, it has 3 red rubber teats on it but lambs not keen on sucking it. any tips to make them suck them. thanks

you have to feed them individually through them for a few days with warm milk.
Also there's hard teats for when they're older and softer teats to start them .....I wonder which you have

Westernrock

rangler1 wrote: »

you have to feed them individually through them for a few days with warm milk.
Also there's hard teats for when they're older and softer teats to start them .....I wonder which you have

+1 from what I remember the red teats are the hard teats and white are the soft?

Surfn

rangler1 wrote: »

you have to feed them individually through them for a few days with warm milk.
Also there's hard teats for when they're older and softer teats to start them .....I wonder which you have

i thing they must be the hard 1s, they seem pretty firm compaired to the black 1s i was using on the end of a bottle

davidk1394

White ones are softer to get them started and then red ones are harder and last longer. What tends to work here is some glucose in the milk to sweeten it and make sure it's warm. After that you need patience and lots of it.