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milk, she should be allowed to clean her lamb as much as possible. She will claim the lamb even if she cannot nurse it, and even when you bottle feed her lamb it can be put back with her and stay with her. Don't forget, if the ewe is too weak to lick off the mucus from a lamb's nose, wipe it off for her, then dry the lamb and put some iodine on its navel at once, then feed the lamb with either colostrum stored from another ewe, or make up the following formula:
26 ounces (769 ml) milk – prepared by mixing half evaporated, condensed milk with half water.
1 tablespoon (14.8 ml) castor oil – or cod liver oil
26 ounces (769 ml) milk – prepared by mixing half evaporated, condensed milk with half water.
1 tablespoon (14.8 ml) castor oil – or cod liver oil