![]() You may be able to help Skinny by making sure of the following : (So don't increase the volume of Fatty's feeds if you do dilute them, that would make it more likely to overflow the abomasum.) If milk gets into the rumen, that's when you get bloat and other problems. The rumen is not fully functional until 6 weeks and not fully developed until 8 weeks. The rumen is for digesting fibrous (plant) material. They don't digest milk in the rumen, but in the abomasum. He also pees mid way through a feed (when having a break) and he poos ok too. PS he does sometimes gurgle a fair bit when drinking and I am firm but not forcing when it comes to feeding. They both come over for a bottle feed but just have different levels of keenness.Īny recommendations for or thoughts about my theory on a slow developing rumen? I did wonder whether putting out an adlib milk feeder would be better or worse than bottle feeding given the difference in feeding speed they both have? I am concerned that "fatty" will get bloat and "skinny" will go hungry. We are sticking to little and often for feeds for "skinny" as I suspect he has an underdeveloped rumen and he will eventually catch up. The second ie "fatty" from another triplet was brought in to keep "skinny" company. We brought "skinny" in as he was running around trying to feed off other ewes and generally scavanging so we concluded the Ewe could unfortunately not look after the 3 despite first impressions. I would point out they are both triplets and their siblings are of a similar build but just bigger as with the mums. ![]() Skinny won't drink the recommended amount of lamlac for age but is generally doing fine apart from being skinnier that the other. They spend most of their time in the barn and are about 3 weeks old. They both eat a little creep, hay, straw and nibble at things generally when i let them out for short spells in small paddock area. ![]() But "skinny" is a slow drinker, not a proper suckler and stops a lot - I've tried all different types of teats etc but he just doesn't have the hang of things. "Fatty" drinks his bottle milk in about 3 minutes. Hi We have two orphan lambs - aptly names skinny and fatty. ![]()
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