[Jacob-list] Enough Milk?

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LOL.. Nope.. No kids and no breast feeding experience!  
 
They are definitely not eating enough.. They really were doing well  
yesterday.. but today they seem really sunk in.  The little one, the ewe  lamb, is 
definitely falling farther behind.  I supplemented her with 2 oz  tonight.. I 
will go out in about 6 hrs and offer another bottle to them both..  maybe we can 
get mom over the hump and she will kick up the milk production..  Otherwise.. 
I think I'll try every 6 hrs (4x a day) bottles while leaving them  with mom.  
 
They are dipping their noses in her water.. something I've not seen  newborns 
do?????.. they also are trying to nibble on hay.  mom isn't eating  well at 
all.. she only ate 2 cups of grain TOTAL in the last 24 hrs.. I offered  her 2 
cups after she lambed.. and she gobbled that down....but has shown no real  
interest since.. Also not eating hay too well... I gave her some Yogurt to see  
if she needed some "bugs in her belly" I'm doing the Pen-G as I had to go in 
and  pull the lambs.. and am giving it as a preventative measure.. I had a set 
of  twins I had to pull in march and ended up losing that ewe... so I'm a bit  
worried (the ewe that died was actually a twin sister to this ewe)  Her  
lambing was more traumatic as she had 2 very large ram lambs.  She is  drinking 
pretty well.. She drank about 2 gallons today.  
 
Jennifer Tucker
Moose Mtn. 
Bennett, Co



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