I started out in 96 with 20 Barbado ewes and 1 ram.  After 6 years I had 85 head and every lambing we had at least 3 in a playpen in the house raising on a bottle.  I was working in the city and at a state gov't job, so I carried one or 2 in a little dog cage to work every day.  My co-workers loved them and would take turns feeding them.  I would get the cheap baby diapers and cut them to fit the tail.   I put a pencil to the expense one time and when I cam up to $300/head on bottle babies, I quit counting.  It wasn't about the money.   later I weathered all my rams, and every one of my rams had been a bottle baby.  I am down to 35 head now, my oldest one I buried last week.  She was the first one of my bottle babies and was over 24 years old..   I sold a few, but the last load left in 2008.  Now they just live out their life and keep the yard mowed and eat the weeds out of the wheat field.  I don't know what I will do when I run out of sheep.  I don't want to get into bottle babies again.  I had 2 calves over the years and neither one made it a year after being off the bottle...