[Jacob-list] Bottle Lamb Problems

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Im beginning to worry that I have bigger problems going on in my 2 bottle  
lambs.. Keep in mind that these are my first bottle babies.
 
I have a pair of ram lambs born  the 15th of March.  They were on  their dam f
or the first 3 days...  She died on the 21st.  We were  supplementing them 
with bottles from day 3.
 
I am having round 2 of scours.  Im not certain that their stools ever  got 
normal.. But they did get thicker.. like a paste.  I started them on a  small 
emergency 3 lb bucket of Lamb replacer, when we started.... I then  switched 
them to Land O Lakes bucket.  Tonight I planned to swich them to  the Purina as 
the feed store finally got in a big bag of it for me.  I  didn't want to do so 
much switching, but had to make do.
 
On the 23rd, they started to show signs of scours. I put them on  Pedialyte 
for 24 hrs, and  then cut back the powder to half, with plenty of  water in 
their bottles.  It seemed to thicken up to the paste.....but never  really 
pellets.
 
We clipped up their banded tails to keep an eye on things... But because  
they are in a 4x4 pen with shavings.. I never seem to be able to see what they  
are pooping.....  Seeing ocassional moderate scours,  I was told by my  vet to 
start adding 1cc of Penicillin-G to their bottles and have done this for  the 
last 3 days
 
Today, I had to take the boys with me into town, as I had to be gone all  
day.  I had them in a dog crate, with towels, so I got a good idea of  what was 
going on.... Im also GUESSING here, that perhaps the trip to town was a  bit 
stressful, and may have contributed to scours. 
 
I noticed a loose stool at about 10 am.. about the consistancy of a  
milkshake.... on one of the lambs.. 
 
So for their noon bottle, I swung by the big farm store, picked up a calf  
electrolyte packet, and made that up instead of the milk replacer I had with  
me.  I also added in 3cc of Pepto in each of their bottles.  They were  both 
bright and happy.  I gave each of them 10 oz of the electrolyte  formula.  The 
milkshake scours continued.  I gave them another  electrolyte bottle with Pepto 
in it at 6pm.. However , I was forced to give it  to them COLD... as I had the 
mixture in an ice chest (it said to keep  refirgerated)
 
At 8pm, feeling badfor them, I gave them 4oz each of milk replacer.. Then  my 
husband fed them my concotion at 11pm... I had mixed up, 4oz of replacer, 3cc 
 of Pepto, 8oz of electrolytes, and 1cc of Pen-G
 
My husband came in, saying that one of the lambs ate all but 2 oz of the  
mix(he ate about 10 oz).  The other lamb greedily ate his portion.   The lamb 
that didn't eat his portion was a bit hunched up.  Temp was 102.5  , and his 
stool was watery with a greenish tinge.
 
Am I missing something here?  Coccidia?  
 
The stools appear dark yellow to dark green.  
 
My feeding schedule has been:
 
5am  6 oz replacer mixed up according to directions, plus an  extra 1/2 cup 
water
noon 4 oz replacer, with extra 1/2 c of water
6pm  4 oz replacer plus 1/2 c of water
10-11pm 6oz replacer with 1/2 c extra water. with 1cc Pen-G
 
We had been feeding a full extra cup of water with the bottles up until  
Friday, when my vet advised against that.  (so the lambs were getting 4 oz  
replacer with 8 oz of extra water.)
 
 



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