So a ewe dropped two lambs between midnight and 7:00 am Friday morning.
What I think happened is that my “possessive” live stock guardian dog assumed possession of one of the lambs and was licking on it, so now the ewe is rejecting it. While simultaneously the two dogs are fighting over who gets to protect the lamb. The lamb seems to prefer the “normal” dog, and the possessive one is going batty over this.
So now I’m bottle feeding a lamb and trying to keep the dogs from putting expensive holes in one another…
The dogs will return to normal in a few days, as this has happened before (though not to the point of me bottle feeding). But I am so not looking forward to bottle feeding for the next 12 weeks. At least there are no diaper changes involved.
