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To creep or not to creep --Pros & Cons of creep feeding?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk" data-source="post: 22984" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>I pay around 10 cents per pound for creep feed. A healthy calf should put on one pound of growth for each three pounds on feed ingested, theoretically anyway. Yearlings are selling for a dollar a pound or better (I sold one at the sale barn for $1.45 last Saturday). Simple arithmetic tells me that if I can convert 30 cents worth of feed into $1.00 worth of beef, then that is a good deal. I know that there are other factors involved and it is not all that cut and dried, but for now I creep feed fall calves through the winter. I do not usually feed spring calves during the summer. Seems to work for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk, post: 22984, member: 114"] I pay around 10 cents per pound for creep feed. A healthy calf should put on one pound of growth for each three pounds on feed ingested, theoretically anyway. Yearlings are selling for a dollar a pound or better (I sold one at the sale barn for $1.45 last Saturday). Simple arithmetic tells me that if I can convert 30 cents worth of feed into $1.00 worth of beef, then that is a good deal. I know that there are other factors involved and it is not all that cut and dried, but for now I creep feed fall calves through the winter. I do not usually feed spring calves during the summer. Seems to work for me. [/QUOTE]
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