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Show FARM SPCK FEED COW'S MILK TO ORPHAN LAMBS In feeding: orphan lnmbs many think that cow's milk should be diluted with water, but since the analyses of ewe's milk shows It to be richer in fat than cow's milk this practice is entirely unnecessary. un-necessary. For the first week the orphan should have some ewe's milk. If possible. A good way to get It is to take the lamh to the ewes whose lambs are not yet old enough to take all the milk. The orphan should be fed milk often, but It should not be given a large amount at one time until It Is two or three weeks old. Upon the first day of its life an ounce (two tablespoonfuls) Is a liberal lib-eral feeding and it Is safer to feed only half that amount, but it should be fed at least every two hours. It is most convenient to feed the milk from a bottle to which Is attached at-tached a medium-sized nipple of the swan-hill type. The bottle should be kept thoroughly clean and the milk should be fresh and at a natural temperature; tem-perature; that is 100 degrees. In order or-der to maintain the temperature, the bottle containing the milk should be kept in a vessel partly filled with water heated to 100 degrees or slightly slight-ly above. After the lamb Is two or three weeks old, It Is not necessary to feed Jt more than two or three times a day. Sometimes an ewe has two lamba and only enough milk for one. In such a case It Is usually possible to bring the lambs along nicely by supplementing her supply with cow's milk. As they learn to eat grain and hay, the milk feeding can be gradually diminished and finally discontinued. |
