Steer Planet - Show Steers and Club Calves Forum

Here's some pictures of our heifer "Jellybean". I have posted pictures a while back when she was first born. I would like to hear your opinons of her. She is a May calf out of a Char x Heatseeker. Now here's my problem with this heifer she is a dud. She brings new meaning to the word lazy. The only this she does is eat and sleep. I am letting a young boy who lives next door show her for us and this is his first time so he his learning but she is so difficult to show because she is very hard to set up and look alive in the ring. She has been shown once and took a 2nd but everytime he went to set her up she looks like she is falling asleep so she looks sloopy out there. She did close her eyes during showmanship because the judge was taking his time with all the kids.  So please if you have any tips on how to show a lazy calf please tell me!!! Thank you!!

There is a vitafirm show pellet that adds spunk.  We had a heifer that was of average disposition(you know kind of fights with everything but not mean) and we started giving her this protein pellet as a supplement to her feed.  One day I went out to do chores and she came running in the barn like a cracked out cat that just drank 20 cups of coffee and I was actually a little nervous for a second.  As the time went on her personality stayed the same.  I narrowed the timing to when I added this supplement.  I called the dealer and asked him if he had heard of this happening and he said he was getting a ton of reports of this.  Now, my heifer wasn't a deadhead like yours so this could do the trick. 

Could be tightened up in her neck a bit.

She needs a bit of trim to get rid of some of that long hair.

Interesting name-- Jellybean.   We had a Jellybean heifer that my daughter showed at one time(she's now a brood cow for my cousin).   We named her first calf out of Hide N Watch--Licorice.    Jellybean was from the J year and Licorice was from and L year so it worked out pretty well.   If possible, we try to name our animals with names beginning with the letter designated for that year.   We have a Noodles, a Spice & Scotch, a Roxie & Rosy and so on.   Jelly bean is still one of our favorites, however.

Those kind are the hardest to show well.  Arm feels like it is falling off by the end of a long class.