Pet lambs and calves

Calves and lambs need safe, well fenced paddocks with shelter from extreme heat or cold, and clean water in a low trough which they can easily reach.

Young animals need good quality, fresh, long grass because they tend to nibble at the tips of grass. Shelter from wind and rain is essential, especially when your pet is very young.

Ideally a milk feeder should be ‘personal’ to allow you to feed your pet on its own so you develop a friendship with it.

If you are rearing a calf, you can choose from a bucket, a ‘mother udder’ (a handheld small bucket with its own teat), or a standard calfeteria (a calf feeder which has teats for a number of calves).

If you are rearing a lamb, you can buy special ‘lamb bottles’ which have the right size teat for a lamb or, if you have a few lambs, you can buy a lamb feeder with several lamb teats.

For feeding the main options are fresh or powdered milk. If you are using powdered milk there are two types – one for new born animals (which resembles the first milk its mother would produce) and then, when it’s a week or more old, the ‘standard’ milk rearing powder.

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