Fort Worth Steer Show Video

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shortyjock89

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Warrior is a stud.  That would be awesome to be Grand out of a set of steers that good.
 

reno1014

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They have a web site.  Featured is a shorthorn I think its a Chaos ...BEAUTIFUL calf.  My friends kids and my kid are drooling over that calf.
 

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Day didn't raise him, but they do breed some good ones.  They bought the Fort Worth calf out of South Dakota (at least according to the Breeder).

Day's own cattle have been doing real good at the slick shows such as Houston.  They are one of the better breeders down here.
 

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I haven't ever been to the Days.  They are SW of Lubbock.  I'm more in north Texas.  We breed our own steers and buy our breeding stock out of Oklahoma for the most part.
 

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Could you give a break down how the Texas majors work. Class sizes, how they break them by breeds and weight or hip height. How much weight differences in each class. I only have dial up and only saw a second every few seconds of the video. I got the point of it but would like more.
 

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Fort Worth is a hair show with divisions and not totally breed specific.  Example:  Angus, Hereford, Polled-Hereford, Shorthorn, American Crosses and European Crosses.  Each division is separated into Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights the number in each class is determined by the number of overall entries in that particular division.  Each year stands alone on where the weight breaks are, because of them trying to even the classes.  Now the European class is a totally different "animal", no pun intended.  There will be more animals in this division than the others combined, thus resulting in 4 lw classes, 4 mw classes and 4 hw classes.  Houston and San Antonio are slick shear shows and break out into individual breeds and weight classes, thus you have more of an apples vs.apples scenario until you reach the final drive.  Hope this helps some.  I forgot to add all of the calves that made the sale at Fort Worth are now out of the game, hopefully easing the competition.  Although many of the big players have a calf for each individual major show, but theoretically speaking Houston should be the easiest to make sale since it is the last date of the Texas Major Circuit.  We decided to stay in the Minor leagues the rest of the year and lick our wounds at county.
 

chambero

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Fort Worth (end of January) and Houston (early March) are our biggest shows - each have between 1500 and 2000 steers per year.  Our other majors are San Antonio (Mid Feb) and State Fair (Dallas - Oct).  Numbers are smaller at these shows because the sales don't bring as much, but they are probably both around 1,000 calves.

All are slick shear except for Fort Worth.  Houston and San Antonio have breed classes for most British, exotic, and American breeds.  Fort Worth and Dallas lump all exotics together.

Exotic classes in FW and Houston will have around 60-90 steers each.  "Breeds" have roughly half that.

 

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For those of you who have never been to the Ft. Worth steer show.  The scene early on that showed all the calves surrounding the arena, with a few in the middle of the arena.  Those in the middle made the first cut, and all those around the outside are most likely getting the gate.  There were about 67 steers per european class, and only about 12-15 even make the first cut to go to the middle of the arena to actually get judged.  First impressions are everything.

And when showing in a rodeo arena, it takes an unbelievably thick and deep steer to not just disappear out there.  I don't know if I would go so far to say that the top end at Ft. Worth is better than the other majors such as Kansas City, Louisville, or Denver, but there is no other show that can even come close to how deep the quality goes in every class.  With 2000+ steers at the show, there are a lot of HIGH DOLLAR steers that not only don't make the sale, but actually get the gate.

Ft. Worth steer show is definitely something everyone needs to see at least once.
 

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We have a Gert steer for San Antonio and if he doesnt make it there we will be in Houston. Both of these shows have a gert breed show. There was no need to go to Ft Worth since all ABC's (American Breed Crosses) show together which would have been tough to make a sale slot for a gert influenced steer.

And Ft Worth steer show is a sight to behold, very impressive animals.
 

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You've got to be thick-skinned to show at Fort Worth.  A lot of people want to overreact because they hit the gate.  It takes a lot of patience and "want to" to stay with it long enough to get good enough to give yourself a chance to get lucky (how's that for a tongue twister).  Anyone that wins there is lucky - but you have to be real good to have a chance to get lucky.
 

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chambero said:
Day didn't raise him, but they do breed some good ones.  They bought the Fort Worth calf out of South Dakota (at least according to the Breeder).

Day's own cattle have been doing real good at the slick shows such as Houston.  They are one of the better breeders down here.
Do you know whom the breeder is?
 
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