Lulu

Edith called Saturday morning. She had been up late with one of the lambing ewes, it delivered two and she knew there was a third but couldn’t wait up any longer. When Cory went out to the barn Saturday morning he found the third one and got Edith up. It was abandoned by its mom and cold and hungry. Edith took it in the house and put warm towels on it and gave it warm lamb formula. Then she called us because she had to go out of town and told Lisa she could have the lamb if she could nurse it to health. We had it in the front bathroom with a space heater and heat lamp for the first three days. Lisa was tube feeding it every two hours. It took a while for it to learn how to suck on the bottle. Finally it was on the bottle and moving around so we had to move it to the garage into the X-pen. Meet Lulu, she’s a little ewe lamb and now seems to be full of life at the ripe old age of five days. Since she made it this far she gets a name, gender-specific pronouns, and, of course, a blog post.

This was yesterday, she was a mere four days old back then.

Lisa taught her how to drink from the bottle, now she loves it. Way better than having a tube shoved down her throat.

She pees too.

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Lulu at five days old.