It's a bit gory, but lots about farming is. We were in the barn at another farm and they had a ton of lambs running around. One looked quite a bit different th

It's a bit gory, but lots about farming is. We were in the barn at another farm and they had a ton of lambs running around. One looked quite a bit different than others, it looked like he was wearing a white sweater. The farmer explained that this lambs mother had died and so he had no ewe to milk from (ewes won't let random lambs milk from them). So what they do is take a stillborn lamb from a different ewe, remove this 'donor' lambs hide and put it on the orphan lamb. This orphan lamb now smells like the other ewes baby and can now milk from his "adopted" mom. When they don't have a stillborn lamb, they have to bottle feed the lambs which is a lot of work. Using the hide from another lamb allows the lamb to feed normally.