Warm milk may be used the first week and cold milk thereafter. In a free-choice system, each lamb should consume to pound of milk replacer powder in solution daily. This is a bovine origin E. coli antibodies that is used for lambs that may not have received enough colostrum. Mix cup of Colostrx powder with cup of already mixed milk replacer. Feed this mixture three times within the first 12 hours of life.
Most lambs are underfed.
Lambs experience heat loss from birth to 5 hour. Watery eyes in baby lambs is generally inverted eyelids and not pinkeye. The hair of the eyelid is rubbing against and irritating the outside surface of the eye, making it water. The eyelids need to be corrected. The clips are pinched together horizontally, not vertically as one would think.