To my surprise he stood up (at one point I bent down to see if he was still breathing).
We've had previous success in getting a ewe to take back a twin after having warmed and fed it, so we carried the lamb back in to meet Mother.
She wasn't having any. She made it quite clear to me that, far as she was concerned, lamb number 2 was so unlikely to live that she'd cut her losses. She now loved number 1 lamb fiercely. Unfortunately she was quite fierce to unlucky number 2 lamb when he made an attempt to feed, and we saw him give up when she knocked him aside.
We kept on bottle feeding. This is Dougie, wrapped in an extra old coat to keep him warm, feeding our small lamb in the field next morning.
