Our daily routine
First: our final show is in the first part of July we also live in southern California, we would pick up our calves in Oct/Nov, so this how it worked for us.
First part of season Oct-Feb
Morning: feed
Afternoon: Run calves into stall, halter, blow out, take to wash rack, rinse, comb hair up and forward, moved back to stall and blow hair up and forward until dry. Tied standing for about 1 hour (calves have already been up and standing for at least an hour already so a total of 2 hours. Move calves back to kick out pen. Work on setting calves up prior to kicking out, calves had to at least set up and stand correctly once before letting them free.
Wash with soap once a week, leave in cream rinse 2 a week.
March
Start trying to get them to shed out, using grill bricks, curry comb, Sullivan’s shedding come whatever works. Wash once a week.
April 1st: (90+ days prior to final show) Prior to sun up, calves brought in, rinsed, brushed until dry (up at a 45% and forward)and blown out, Sheen or Revive hair, work leg hair, fed and placed in dark stall with fans and a swamp cooler, if you have a cooler they would go in that. After school kids would water calves, rinse again, brush until dry, blow out and put back in stall. At dark calves would get Pink worked into their hair, blown out again, prior to kicking out, still make them set up prior to kicking out. By this time both the kids and the calves will usually be setting up without the stick, they lead them right into it. (Our calves learned that the quicker they set up the sooner they get free)
Each calf is deferent when it comes to hair product, for the standard calf we basically sheened or revived in the morning and pinked in the night.