Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

Wanted to start a new thread(:

That isn't bad. I had a two thousand pound heifer try to ride me and tackled me.

One of our family's favorite 'get togethers' is when we show at the Iowa State Fair.  After we were done showing at the 2010 fair, one of my twin 6 year old grandsons fell backwards, butt first, perfectly into the center of a full bucket of water.  He sat there with that totally shocked, surprised look on his face, not knowing whether he should laugh or cry.  I was sitting about 4 feet from him and immediately burst out laughing.  He laughed then, too.  I plugged in the blower and dried off his pants and shirt, while they were still on him, and we all had a good laugh.  This year, we made a poster out of the photo of me blowing off his clothes and hung it on the show box with the caption:  PLEASE DO NOT SIT IN WATER BUCKETS!

At a show I couldn't find my daughter to start washing her steer.  So I grabbed him and walked him to the wash rack.  My daughter walks up as I'm about to start and ask me what I was doing.  Of course I responded what did it looked like?  She then said, Dad that is not my steer.  I grabbed the neighbors steer.

My dad and I were washing my steer before the local show a couple years ago, well my steer had apparently ate to much that night because i stepped around behind him to rinse his rear off when all of a sudden he coughed and crapped at the same time and ALL of it landed on me!!!!  I was covered in cow crap from my head to my toes! Oh it was so gross. my dad started laughing and i was crying/laughing! Lesson of the story: DON"T STAND BEHIND A STEER FOR TO LONG!

The first calf I ever clipped by myself...enough said.


Also the steer that got spooked as we were exiting the trailer that landed about 15 feet from the back of the trailer with me landing face first right behind him, but I didn't let go of the rope!!

My first year with a market steer. The judge puts me in second place in my class, and as we were doing that final walk where the judge explains Why he placed who where. He gets to me and says "this steer has it all, and is nice and finished, he just needs more hair"

Of course, the show arena is silent. Until my dad yells....

"WHAT?! You can't eat the damn HAIR!"

To top it all off, my steer was for some reason terrified of my dad, and after he said that, my steer refused to walk near my dad