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mercer county, il | Most generally, if you actually run the numbers, by the time you buy the creep feeder, and especially if you’re buying formulated creep feed, the numbers don’t work very well.
Typically, we set up a creep pen, and have troughs in it. A few times a week the kids will bucket oats to the troughs. As summer and into fall wears on, they’ll get transitioned to more of a typical weaning diet (corn, gluten, ddg, basically whatever works that’s cost effective). Sometimes if they want to be picky a little flaked molasses will help.
Then closer to weaning basically put enough feed out that they don’t really need milk.Then it’s pretty simple to lock the ones you want in the creep pen for a few days to wean them, then haul them off. Seems to be less shock/sickness/time off feed. | |
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Creep feeders - what brand - how big
