by Barbie Casey-Booth, M.S. Owner & Nutritionist at Small Ruminant Consulting LLC. What is a “lick feeder”? This is a feeder similar to what cattle producer’s for years have referred to as “steer stuffers”. It is essentially a small bin to hold grain that drops feed via gravity while the animals eat out of the bottom. Typically the feeders hold anywhere from 500lbs. to several tons of grain. The licking action used to obtain the feed from the feeder causes saliva to be produ

By Donald G. Ely Department of Animal and Food Sciences University of Kentucky Creep feeding is a technique of providing feed to nursing lambs to supplement the milk they consume. Creep-fed lambs grow faster than noncreep-feds and are more aggressive in nursing ewes. This aggression stimulates greater ewe milk production which, in turn, increases creep feed intake because these lambs will be bigger at a given ages. Typically, the creep diet is a grain-protein supplement m