Rocky Hill Simmental
Well-known member
This might seem like a strange question but I'm going to ask it anyway.
Is there a trick to getting your calves to eat out of a creep feeder?
We just got this creep feeder last winter and the calves last year loved it. We used to always feed them on the other side of an electric fence so they could crawl under it and eat and the mamas couldn't get any. We wanted to keep feed with them all the time because the ended up spending half of the day waiting for a bucket of feed. They loved the creep feeder.
We got rid of these calves in late summer but we have two 4 month olds left that take no interest in the creep feeder. We now have a newborn baby and I would like for him to start eating out of it too but he's still pretty small.
I set the smartlick minerals kind of close to the feeder so maybe when the mamas are licking that, the babies could find it, but no luck so far.
We're going to have some more calves soon and that feed really made a difference in our cattle last winter. I would like these to do the same. Is their a trick?
Thanks.
Is there a trick to getting your calves to eat out of a creep feeder?
We just got this creep feeder last winter and the calves last year loved it. We used to always feed them on the other side of an electric fence so they could crawl under it and eat and the mamas couldn't get any. We wanted to keep feed with them all the time because the ended up spending half of the day waiting for a bucket of feed. They loved the creep feeder.
We got rid of these calves in late summer but we have two 4 month olds left that take no interest in the creep feeder. We now have a newborn baby and I would like for him to start eating out of it too but he's still pretty small.
I set the smartlick minerals kind of close to the feeder so maybe when the mamas are licking that, the babies could find it, but no luck so far.
We're going to have some more calves soon and that feed really made a difference in our cattle last winter. I would like these to do the same. Is their a trick?
Thanks.