Creep Feeds?

[bluelacedredhea]

Does anyone feed creep feeds to their piglets and at what age do you begin?
I have seen mention of using creep feeds as early as 2 days after birth.

It's been 10 years since we had newborn piglets and I can't recall at what age they became interested in the sow ration. We have 9 newborns here and I'm just trying to decide how best to raise them.

Thanks

[Cravenwas]

When we farrowed sows we used Cargill's creep feeding program with great success. The first step was a milk protien soft pellet that was offered at 2 days of age. They just nibbled for the first few days but after that they started eating well. The Cargill program has 4 stages. They progress according to weight. We had 75 sows and raised breeding stock and sold market weaners.

[bluelacedredhea]

Thanks.
We picked up some pellet and built them a creep area on Saturday.
It took them a day or so to figure out that they could actually burrow in the hay and sleep in there. And eat something in addition to what their mother is offering. (Their father is a little slow to accept new foods...maybe they get the fussy part from him, lol)
But now that they've had it for a few days they seem to have settled in well.