The survival of newborn lambs depends on the inability of the lambs to suck milk.

Lamb

The lamb does not breast-feed:

1. The method of drinking milk in a lactation machine: put the milk into the milk bottle of the lactation equipment, apply the milk to the nipple, put it into the mouth of the lamb, train several times, and then you can learn to nurse. Or using lambs who have learned to breast-feed with breast-feeding devices as an example to induce, can also achieve the goal.

2. Box drinking method: put the milk into a small box and let the lambs drink by themselves. At first, the nurse cut, polished and washed the nails, dipped the index or middle finger in the milk, let the lamb suck, and slowly lured the lamb to the milk to drink. After several times of training, the lamb will drink milk from the drinking box.

The lamb is unable to suck milk:

First, iron deficiency anemia, leading to muscle weakness; second, calcium deficiency, causing osteomalacia; third, lack of selenium, vitamin E, etc., causing leukomyopathy and so on. In addition, after the birth of the lamb, the external temperature is too low, coupled with the lamb did not eat colostrum in time, resulting in lamb tooth root stiffness, resulting in unable to suck on their own.

If the lamb is unable to stand up and suck by itself, phosphorus should be supplemented in time to promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. In addition, 50ml calcium gluconate injection and 250ml sodium chloride solution can be injected intravenously once a day. 20,000 international units of vitamin An and vitamin D3 injection can also be subcutaneously injected once a day.

Lamb white myopathy caused by muscle weakness, sick lambs, each intramuscular injection of 2 ml of sodium selenite or vitamin E, and appropriate amount of vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C treatment. Lambs without disease should be injected with 1 ml intramuscularly for prevention.

For a lamb whose tooth root is stiff and cannot suck on its own due to failure to eat colostrum in time, farmers should assist breastfeeding by stuffing the ewe's nipple into the lamb's mouth to squeeze the nipple and stimulate it to secrete milk, thus stimulating the lamb to suck. Generally, after 3 or 5 days of operation, the lamb will suck on its own.

In addition, the feeding management should be strengthened at ordinary times, and the pregnant, lactating ewes and lambs should be fed with protein feed, bone meal, stone powder and selenium-rich feed (legume forage, etc.) to prevent lambs from lactation disease.