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Creep Feeding Beef Calves

Louisiana Experiment Station.

Abstract

General Conclusions:

1. Creep-feeding makes it possible to produce good calves for an earlier market. The top quotations in New Orleans on this grade of calves dropped an even $1.00 per 100 pounds by November 22nd, so that a 525-pound calf in November would have brought no more money than a 420-pound calf of the same grade in September.

2. Creep-feeding pays (1) where conditions are favorable for doing the work; (2) where the work of feeding can be done by home labor without interfering materially with other work; (3) where feed such as corn can be home grown; and (4) where, due to poor pasture or insufficient milk, calves are not making good gains and would not be in condition to sell at a fair price at weaning time without extra feed.

3. Creep-feeding is not recommended where the calves cannot conveniently be fed or made to go into the creep, where feed must be bought at a high price, or where the labor will add materially to the cost. Where there is excellent pasture and the cows are good milkers, so that satisfactory gains and good prices can be obtained on pasture alone, the profits from creep-feeding may not be sufficient to justify the extra labor involved.

4. Calves that are to be put in the feed lot at weaning time, to be fed out during a short feeding period for an early winter market, will not lose so much flesh at weaning time and will go on feed much more quickly if they have been grain-fed for a short time previous to weaning.