Artificially rearing lambs often is assumed to be unprofitable because good quality milk replacer can be expensive and because people with experience bottle-feeding lambs assume that there is a high labor cost. A budget, based upon the work of Yves Berger and Richard Schlapper at the University of Wisconsin Spooner Agricultural Research Station at Spooner, was developed to evaluate the situation. This budget shows that, although milk replacer prices are high, properly managed artificially-reared lambs are profitable at 2007 lamb prices.

See pages 7 through 15 of the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Spooner Sheep Day (1998) to read the complete article to learn how to manage artificial rearing of lambs.

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