<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Bottle lambs can be introduced back into the flock. We had one this fall. She was in with the flock for 2 weeks before we knew we had to do something or lose her. We were given a chance to catch her and brought her into the house. We placed her in a large dog kennel. We immediately fed her mixing the milk replacer with Pedialite ( something that I read from the list serve ) and with in 24 hours, she had perked right up. We had her in the house, out in the house yard, and with us for about 4 weeks.I placed a collar on her and would place her outside on a dog chain connected to the clothes line. She could see the sheep in our small pen and would lay down over by them. I would unhook her if I were outside so she could run and follow me around the yard. Gradually we began to put her in with the rest of the flock for short amounts
of time and gradually lengthened the amount of time she spent with them. Eventually we left her overnight and she has been with the flock since then. When we feed the others, she has to come out of the pen in the barn and eat out of " her " bowl and she eats hay off the bale. When she is ready to rejoin them, she squeezes through the boards of the pen and goes back in by herself. She will still frollow us around the yard if she chooses to. The flock eventually accepted her and she is doing well. So yes I feel that bottle lambs can be brought back to be part of the flock with time. Just my experience. I think it was harder for me to leave her in with the flock than is was for her to adjust to being with them!!!!!! Sue Miller</DIV></div></html>
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