Unaccountably, the little ram lamb was still alive this afternoon.  At my 3pm barn check, I found him out of the jug (I think I’d left the panel a bit ajar), walking around the barn bleating and trying to find someone to feed him.  I’m assuming that he managed to get some milk from his mother, as he was much stronger this afternoon than he was yesterday.  He’s now displaying many of the nursing reflexes, but hasn’t quite perfected his game.

His mother is still completely uninterested in caring for him, though she is not actively pushing him away.  I’m hoping he can be assertive enough to get some nutrition even without her cooperation.  In the meantime, I’m supplementing him with the bottle to keep his strength up.

He’s also been trying to push his way into the neighboring jug with the ewe lamb that was born yesterday.  I tested him with that ewe, in the unlikely case that she’d accept him along with her own lamb, but she immediately started head-butting him.