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You need to have a limiter of some kind in there or they
would be apt to get enterotoxemia (over eating disease).

We had a friend/customer try that once. He lost quite a few
calves. Interesting, one vet said it was impaction. He talked
to me and I told him he would have noticed him being off-feed
for a few days. These calves were just dropping dead.
I told him I thought he had entertoxemia and if he would
bring the next one to Baker to the vet, I would pay for it.

So the next one that died, he brought to Baker. I was there
when the vet cut him open. Classic overeating disease.
Purple gut!!!!! Doc asked him what he used for vaccine and
what the fellow said was a cheap vaccine. Doc said, "the
only vaccines that work best for overeating is Vision 7
and (I think) Utrabac."

I would not try it, unless you can figure out a limiter of some
sort. (My humble opinion).

BTW, the customer paid, I didn't have to. :wink:
 
Thanks- Maybe the commerical product isn't as expensive as I thought. Got some fence that needs alot of work thinking creep will give them something else to keep them content.
 
Northern Rancher said:
when we fall calved we used to creep feed whole oats with no troubles.
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Back in the old days - when we believed it to be profitable to creep feed we also used whole oats with no ill effects.

Now-a-days we do nothing other than let them suck on a tit and eat grass - we are tighter than a frogs butt hole when it comes to money.

BC
 
Broke Cowboy said:
Northern Rancher said:
when we fall calved we used to creep feed whole oats with no troubles.
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Back in the old days - when we believed it to be profitable to creep feed we also used whole oats with no ill effects.

Now-a-days we do nothing other than let them suck on a tit and eat grass - we are tighter than a frogs butt hole when it comes to money.

BC
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That can't be too tight, or the frog wouldn't be able to jump. :wink: :-)

Somehow this reminds me of a cartoon I saw back when I was just a kid. This little girl (who was about my age at the time) was entering her parents' bedroom. She said, "Mommy, I can't sleep. You braided my hair too tight and now I can't shut my eyes." :-)
 
If you HAVE to put out creep, make sure it's fiber based rather than starch based. Rough N Ready is about as good as there is, and has a pellet that's far and away superior to the competition.

www.admani.com
 
Which Rough and Ready Creep do you use? I have used the Cargill BIR creep that is fibre based and it works really good as well. The BIR stands for "built in roughage". Really good pellet, no bloats and unreal growth when they get onto it
 
Rough N Ready 14% from ADM/Alliance nutrition.

Any brand would be good, as long as it's fiber based.

May cost a little more than grain (starch) based, but don't let that scare you.
 

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