foundered feeder steer

I'd look long and hard at the ration if you plan on using a creep feeder. Too many people want to pump shelled corn, soybean meal, and molasses in a creep feeder and not buffer it (I used 10% sodium bicarbonate and 10% feed grade ground limestone, when I was feeding this to milk cows). I've never had one founder in 19 years of feeding and used a creep feeder up until 4 years ago. Ear corn and distillers dried grain makes a good mix, soybean hulls straight did well, shelled corn with ground alfalfa hay have all worked well for me.

I have available to me ear corn, shell corn, oats, grass & alfalfa hay.

I would think giving them a little fiber in alfalfa or grass would be a good thing, and a mix with some oats in it, or get the fiber from the ear corn mix?

--->Paul

--->Paul

I've also used shelled corn/oats/alfalfa on a 1/3-1/3-1/3. (I buy shelled corn and oats to mix whole on site for the horses).

I've thought, if I went back to creep feeders, of using corn gluten pellets 60/40 with alfalfa. Probably wont though, I never pushed mine real hard 2-1/2-3 # a day as a goal. Been getting better than 2 the past 2 years on round baled silage of red clover and orchardgrass cut 1st of May. Planned on using the corn gluten pellets with it but had to stop, geting them too fat.