Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

Sams Club had some last month when I was there for $99, and that is cheap! They were pretty nice, almost bought one...

all of the western stores around here carry a few, we always had our show steer hides tanned hair on.  We have some black, gray, white, brindled red, and black with chrome and love them.  You can also vacuum them without fear of the hair slipping as well

Where did/do you have your hides tanned? I have one now to send off, and I'm not exactly sure who to use. The two places I've talked to are estimating 6-10 months to get it done...is that normal?

We sent our show steer hide off to our local taxidermist and he scraped it and then sent it to a man in TX and it took 4 or 5 months and cost over $500.00 but when it came in it was well worth the money!

Try Moyle Tannery in Idaho.  They do a lot of my furs.  But larger items like cow hides, buffalo hides, bears, etc, they charge by the foot.  It's probably going to be in the hundreds of dollars. For some reason $85 a foot is what I remember.

Well, the taxidermist I have do deer heads etc does his own tanning...I know a friend that gets lamb hides done for about $75

Lol I'll keep that in mind about the timeline...

My hide is just one I thot was too pretty to throw out. We needed a beef to feed last summer, and one day at the sale barn was a real pretty registered shorthorn heifer...she was nice enough that she stood out in the pens at the sale barn, and I even thot about keeping her around after I found out what she was. I bought her thinking I'd like to have that hide, and after I figured out how hateful she was, I didn't think much about not keeping her around! The reason she ended up there in the first place...she was a show heifer that no kids could handle! If I was a shorthorn breeder, it'd be super cool lol. The hide is obviously not a Simmental, but I still think it'll be neat.

I've talked to Sebring! That's probably where I'll send it. He told me 6-10 months, which I thot seemed like a big window, but I was a little worried because the quote seemed almost TOO reasonable. I was a little worried we weren't on the same page with what we were talking about. Thanks for the info & the recommendation!