Advice -to clip or not to clip

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NJ Farms

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I would like some advice on my son's show steer. It's two weeks from the county fair and I am trying to decide if I should clip his longer brownish/red tinted sun bleached  hair on his midsection, his hindquarter and shoulder are shed out to black.  Does anybody have any advice on that topic.  He started to shed this hair just the last couple weeks and it is spotty.  Trying to decide if I should just skim off the top and try to get it to blend a little better.  I just can't decide. I would appreciate some feed back. 
 

NJ Farms

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And how easy is this?  I haven't even dyed  my own hair, let alone my critters.
 

blackcows

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NJ Farms said:
And how easy is this?  I haven't even dyed  my own hair, let alone my critters.

I agree, dye him.  It is not very hard and he will look jet black.

Mike
 

NJ Farms

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Would I use a cattle product or human product?  I suppose I could look in the sullivan's catalog.  I am way up north, in Minnesota, our cattle shows are few and far between up here and our ag stores do not have show products on the shelves.
 

Jill

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Go to a beauty supply store, they will have the same type of dye as Sullivans for much cheaper.  Do a search on dying, there are a lot of discussions on the board about it.
 
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