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It's a method of feeding calves so that they can gain enough weight to be sold at a higher monetary value. It also helps increase their ability to grow and be healthier. Creeping calves is a method that is much debated among producers: some don't like doing it because it's too costly, others do it because it puts more money in their pocket (figuratively speaking, mind you) when they sell them. But creeping calves can be important during times when their mothers cannot produce enough milk for them due to poor forage quality, or as a necessity if the breed being raised does not have as good forage convertibility as other breeds.

Calves are fed a calf-starter grain mixture in a feeder only they are allowed to access. Another method of creep-feeding calves is letting them have access to better quality pasture ahead of their dams. A part of the fence is raised so that the cows cannot go through but the calves can.

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