tips to keep creep feeder from being upended?

[greybeard]

I try to keep creep feed out when I get close to weaning, but have had the adults (especially a bull) just turn the whole thing over. With soggy ground and constant threat of high water, I really can't move the adults around very much right now, but still want to feed some creep. Not this one, but it's built kinda like it.

I figure I could drive 4 tee posts down to hold it, but am afraid the bull will just destroy the whole thing trying to turn it over anyway. Ideas?

 

[M-5]

mine is similar to that and I find it pushed around by the cows and bull but never had it turned over

 

[dun]

Neighbor lady has one similar but a lot longer. Saw her bull wandering around the pasture last year wearing it like a hat. The easiest way is to build a creep pen. When we fed creep I made a 12X12 pen using heavy duty panels and built a creep gate across one end to exclude all but the calves.

 

[J&D Cattle]

I haven't used my feeders that are similiar to that in several years but we just used T-posts and it worked fine. A bull could still mangle it pretty good if he wanted to though.

 

[Jogeephus]

Neighbor lady has one similar but a lot longer. Saw her bull wandering around the pasture last year wearing it like a hat. The easiest way is to build a creep pen. When we fed creep I made a 12X12 pen using heavy duty panels and built a creep gate across one end to exclude all but the calves.

I did something similar only built it permanent next to the watering pen. I put a small gate that only allows small calves access on one end by the water tank then a larger creep gate on the other end. Worked nice for several years till the bulls decided to have a wrestling match and took one of the corner posts down and I've never bothered to repair it.

 

[greybeard]

Which is a better creep gate--one with low horizontal bars the bigguns can't get under or one with narrow openings between vertical bars that the mature cattle can't squeeze between?
(I've seen them both ways)
A combination of the 2 types?

 

[dun]

Which is a better creep gate--one with low horizontal bars the bigguns can't get under or one with narrow openings between vertical bars that the mature cattle can't squeeze between?
(I've seen them both ways)
A combination of the 2 types?

A combination of the two.

 

[JSCATTLE]

I built a pen out of cattle panel and put the gate Off the feeder in it . Put the feeder in the center of the pen. I also have a hog trap door in the fence . When the hogs get bad I close the creep gate and set the trap . If I could figure out how to keep the coons out I'd have it made . I've caught 10 in the last week and a half .

 

[TexasBred]

Which is a better creep gate--one with low horizontal bars the bigguns can't get under or one with narrow openings between vertical bars that the mature cattle can't squeeze between?
(I've seen them both ways)
A combination of the 2 types?

GB I had a heifer I kept from a baby. She ate from the creep feeder all her life. When she weighed 1200 lbs. and already had a calf that bytch would find a way to get inside an eat her fill....SHE finally just tore it to he&& getting in and out. When she was trying to get in and out she looked like fat woman trying to get into a pair of skin tight stretch pants.

 

[skyhightree1]

GB I thought about this post and had a crazy idea that I would try which is putting a bucket of cement with eyebolt in it to act as an anchor by chaining the top rail to the eyebolt in the bucket as a deterrent put one on each side of the feeder is what I may try if I have those issues. I have a greedy heifer that loves the creep feeder she is too big for it but still continues to basically get on her knees and crawl in and tears her back up.

 

[TexasBred]

Sky that looks like the one I had. Nothing was going to keep her out.

 

[skyhightree1]

Sky that looks like the one I had. Nothing was going to keep her out.

Next step is a single hot line where I know she would touch it.. that may be a solution too gb

 

[wacocowboy]

I had a Hereford bull and an Angus bull neither ever messed with my creep feeder, but when I got my Beefmaster bull he just said to heck with it and destroyed the cage. Thinking about building a cage with panels and t-post around the feeder so I can use it.

 

[dieselbeef]

i use those screw in anchors. a 5 ft long one with a 6'' disc on the btm will keep it chained down..then they just quit trying after awhile.

 

[greybeard]

GB I thought about this post and had a crazy idea that I would try which is putting a bucket of cement with eyebolt in it to act as an anchor by chaining the top rail to the eyebolt in the bucket as a deterrent put one on each side of the feeder is what I may try if I have those issues.

I doubt that would do much to deter this bull--he's got enough strength to easily pick that feeder up full loaded and then some.
I'm gonna have to go with panels--i'm pretty sure tie downs on it is just going to result in a wrecked feeder.

 

[skyhightree1]

GB I thought about this post and had a crazy idea that I would try which is putting a bucket of cement with eyebolt in it to act as an anchor by chaining the top rail to the eyebolt in the bucket as a deterrent put one on each side of the feeder is what I may try if I have those issues.

I doubt that would do much to deter this bull--he's got enough strength to easily pick that feeder up full loaded and then some.
I'm gonna have to go with panels--i'm pretty sure tie downs on it is just going to result in a wrecked feeder.

Those darn feeders are expensive you definitely don't want to be buying one a month. How about making a concrete pad to bolt it too permanently ? Make a pad then use axle bolts that are anchored in the concrete and a piece of steel to go over the feeder framing then bolt it down. Do you know what I mean?

 

[Rajela]

How about getting rid of the bull and getting another????

 

[greybeard]

How about getting rid of the bull and getting another????

He's going, just as soon as I find a local red angus/brangus bull, tho after reading the thread in Breeds, I might look at Gerts..

 

[skyhightree1]

GB - This is one greedy heifer shes still going in there

 

[TexasBred]

Sky that looks like the feeder and the heifer I was dealing with except the heifer was even larger. Eventually tore the feeder up getting out when she would see or hear me coming.