G79-432 Creep Feeding Lambs

This NebGuide discusses creep feeding for lambs, making supplemental feed available only to nursing lambs. Creep feeding is a management practice of making supplemental feed available only to nursing lambs. Creep feeding is desirable because: (1) lambs gain as much as a third to half a pound per day more when their milk diet is supplemented with grain, (2) the lambs are ready for market 1 to 2 months earlier, thus earlier marketing is adapted to a higher market for spring lambs, and (3) the lambs are not allowed to go to spring pasture, thus permitting more ewes on the same pasture and reducing internal parasites in the lambs