Produção de cordeiro com utilização do creep feeding

Abstract

the objective it was aimed at with this revision to compile information about the use of the creep feeding in the creation of lambs. The system is based in the curve characteristic of nursing of the sheep, whose production pick happens between the third and fourth week after the childbirth, and 75% of the total of milk are produced in the first eight weeks of the nursing. Besides, it should consider if the fact that the increase of the number of you create for childbirth it is not accompanied by the proportional increase of the production of milk. Sheep with two create they produce more about 20 to 40% the of milk than sheep with simple childbirths. The concentrated supplementation improves the development weight and during the sucking phase, that system can be initiate in the first days of life, contributing besides to the adaptation to the intake of solid victuals. The creep feeding is usually offered to you create them one week after the birth to stimulate the precocious development of the rumen, which depends on the ability of those animals in to intake and to use the food solid, and supplemental the ingestion of nutrients for a more accelerated growth. The location of the hod for supply of the concentrate is another aspect of relevance, because it can impede or to help in the beginning of the adaptation of the animals to the system, should be close to drinkers or hods of salt, where the sheep are more contained. The use of the creep feeding since well drifted and executed, it is economically viable, because that system is fundamental in the sheep creation and it can be used in any time of the year, mainly in the dry period, in that there is food shortage and the head offices reduce the production of milk, consequently it increases the rate of mortality of the lambs.