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One tip for getting reluctant mothers to accept their lambs is put momma on her backside, let the lamb feed, then put lamb in a small pen next to momma,make the pens small, and she will accept her lamb in a couple of days. Bottle fed lambs do not grow as well as normally fed lambs.

Hi Sheepshape Sorry to hear about your troubles, we had a dreadful winter here last year and my first 4 ewes all struggled to have live births. After digging them out of the 5 feet snow drifts they were in a sorry state. We found the only way to keep twins alive was to take the smaller twin...

I have a flock of Herdwick ewes, which i will be lambing around April the 15th, plus an Arab mare, a Skewbald gelding and 2 minature Shetland ponies (elderly), a Charollais Ram (Clive) and his companion wether Rory

Hi to everyone Nice to join a like minded site Riva