These observations seem to indicate that creep feed intake is related to maturity of piglets rather than the duration of creep feeding. However, before producers start reducing the length of creep feeding, previous research at Kansas State University found that creep feeding duration does influence the proportion of eaters in whole litters. In their study, litters provided with creep feed for 13 days produced approximately 1 14% more eaters than litters feed creep for six days or two days (80%, 70% and 71% respectively). However, for a litter of 10 pigs a 14% increase in eaters translates to only one additional eater per litter.