Hair growing tips

My steer is  MaineXChi-maine, so he should be pretty fluffy, and he is somewhat. I rinse him every morning, and wash and blow dry him once a week, what else could I do to enhance his hair and make it more show worthy?

Do you blow him out each time you rinse him?
Cheap rout:
Rinse, rice root brush, until your arm is falling off, the finish blowing him out. Work the hair up and forward, from back to font. If he has any cowlicks starting working them out now. The closer you get to the fair rinse him more, we show in July, May and June calves were getting rinsed 2 or 3 times a day. Your not just getting them wet, you need to rinse with cool to cold water for at least 15 to 20 minutes to chill them, just wetting them down does not do enough.

More expensive:
Same as above, plus: grow-n-shine, shagg, or melatonin implants.

Expensive: All the above and a cool box.

Thank you very much! That helps a lot! I don't blow him every time, but I do most of the time. I show in March, do you think I should do it 2 or 3 times a day?

The more you rinse the more hair you should get. You are in Florida right, if the weather permits I would rinse morning and night, keep him under fans and in a dark stall during the daylight, the cooler the better.
If you do not have a dark stall then a covered area with shade cloth will suffice .

Rinse, blow, brush, comb, repeat. There is definitely a lot of work that goes into hairy cattle. On days where I can't rinse and fall short of time I definitely make time to comb my cattle daily to stimulate their hair. It's the same feeling as someone playing with your hair that same tingly feeling is what helps stimulate the hair to grow. So definitely be out there brushing and combing your calfs hair everyday if you are not able to rinse and dry

so many people don't 'rinse' properly.....yes rinse down entire animal but concentrate cold water on neck/heart area (where all the major veins & arteries are) hence cooling the animal - ideally you want to drop body temp a few degrees to chill them....we will run ice cold water on the neck alone for 20 minutes - you will end up with a shivering animal - grows hair best!

Someone said you are in FL so I will offer my advise based on that.  #1 in my opinion for areas as humid as the gulf coast states, keep him under a fan.  From my experience, high humidity and 75degrees will shuch hair as much as 100 degree dry weather.  Keep those fans on him to keep air circulating and hair moving.  Then it is pretty much as everyone else said, rinse as often as possible, you arent going to get many days in FL that are to cold to rinse, and very few days that are truly cold enough to grow hair.  Ambient body temp for cattle varies somewhere around 60 degrees, that means that at that temp they are going to maintain what hair they have and neither grow or shuck hair in most circumstances, that means that we have to get them colder in order to grow hair.  When rinsing, if you can do it 3 or 4 times a day, use the coldest water you can and concentrate for 20 minutes or so on neck and heart girth area and legs, you run cold water over the most exposed major arteries then and will circulate cooled blood cooling the calf off.  Then use a rice root brush until you think your arm will fall off, this not only trains hair but stimulates blood flow to hair follicles which gives healthier coat.  Unless they are going under fans in a cooler, I never leave a calf wet.  So blow him out after each rinsing, but dont over dry him use a brush to stimulate hair rather than the blower at home.  Keep him in the dark, lack of daylight for prolonged periods makes their body think winter is approaching and they will start growing hair and laying down fat in an effort to prepare for the cold months.

If you follow everything that has been mentioned you should get hair. We don't have a cooler and still kept the hair on my daughters show cattle. Even the limousin heifer had good hair, and they are not bred for hair. she spent her summer rinsing blow drying brushing and keeping them in the barn all day.  We kept them under fans and ran misters on a timer three times a day for 30 minutes. and she rinsed in between the times I had the misters set to run.