Cubes must be a western thing, as I've never seen them fed here. We do put out lick tubs, or if someone wants to get fancy, lick stations that hold a lot more. I will sometimes take an old gravity wagon and go to the feed mill, and buy a ton of feed in the bulk. I cover it with a tarp, and will feed out of that for a while if I have something that needs the feed.
If feed is on the cheap side, I'll put out creep feeders for the calves. But, if there's plenty of grass for the mama cows, and feed is high, I don't see a lot of benefit in creep feeding. Feed can go bad quick in the summer and especially in the high humidity we have here.
