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After a day or 2, the lamb takes on an odor that the dam doesn't recognize.

If the owner has a prize lamb, who's mother died, and, in addition, he has a ewe who's lamb died, he will skin the dead lamb and drape the skin on the orphan. The ewe will think it's hers, and adopt it with no problem. After she feeds it, and takes care of it well, he takes off the skin.

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Q: Why do ewes adopt and nurse a lamb shortly after they give birth to their own lamb but reject a lamb introduced a day or two later?
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