The craziest thing you have seen at a cattle show

I've had fun reading these...so thought I'd add one.  We've seen a lot of crazy things at cattle shows but one of the funniest for our family came at the Houst Gilt Show two years ago.
Houston definitely gets a crowd of city folks that like to look but not touch. Houston has added the waterless hand sanitizer dispensers at the end of each isle and it's a show in itself watching them hit those each time they get down an isle.

This lady dressed to the nines and in 4 inch heels was squated down "talking" to our pig.  You know how people talk to babies, well she was definitely talking to a baby.  This kid across the isle from us was bringing a hog back from the wash rack and she didn't notice him coming.  When that pig got to about a foot from her she heard something and turned around to end up nose to nose with it.  She screamed bloody murder and before I could even move was standing on the top of the pen panel in those 4 inch heels.  I didn't think we would ever stop laughing!  It was a sight to see for sure!  It took about 5 minutes and quite a bit of coaxing to get her to come down.

At Canadian Western Agribition a few yrs ago... a bunch of young school kids -grade 2 ? -were touring through the barns with chaperones... I was watching the poop line while the rest our crew were busy with other things... One little guy was standing there bawling his eyes out :'( :'(.. I walked up to him and asked him what was wrong... He said that a cow pee-ed in his backpack... I got him to turn around so that i could take a look at his backpack....sure as heck... his backpack was dripping wet..... His water bottle had sprung a leak and was dripping down his back and legs!!!!! He will always remeber his experience at agribition... what a great story to write about when he got back to class !!!!!

Show stopper 95 said:

FutureBreeder said:

Show stopper 95 said:

some of the 'Pretty' people in Texas. No Names but the texas folks will agree with me  (lol) its the funniest and most bizzare thing ever. i would describe in detail but i thank its best i dont.

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Could you clarify for the people up north  please.

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fed champions Knows it lol and this guy and his buddies grew up in a show barn. future breeder get on facebook and friend S.b cattle. he will accept anybody. has 3000 friends and its a blast to read what he says

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i was jealous of his attire. but in all honesty he is a wonderful judge and hard to please.

lol Hilltop reminded me of something that happened this year at our fair. Its not the best story but It still made me laugh. Our fair has alot of young kids from day camps and that kinda thing come out and do tours around the barns. Most of these kids have never been that close to an animal larger then a dog. Well right as a group walks behing my heifer she squats to take a big ol pee. You should have seen the look on those kids face! They all ran past her holding their noses screaming and yellling "EWWWWW!!!!!"

I saw a woman chase a kid down for his crackers!!! (clapping) 

gobigorgohome said:

Show stopper 95 said:

FutureBreeder said:

Show stopper 95 said:

some of the 'Pretty' people in Texas. No Names but the texas folks will agree with me  (lol) its the funniest and most bizzare thing ever. i would describe in detail but i thank its best i dont.

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Could you clarify for the people up north  please.

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fed champions Knows it lol and this guy and his buddies grew up in a show barn. future breeder get on facebook and friend S.b cattle. he will accept anybody. has 3000 friends and its a blast to read what he says

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i was jealous of his attire. but in all honesty he is a wonderful judge and hard to please.

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Im jealous of his attire... He always has awesome boots. ;D

Haha, this year I had a moron of a steer, but he was well broke, and i always put a blower on him, but this time, i put him in my steel clipping chute, i had barely flipped the switch when I turned around and saw him running towards the fence, he had bent the side bars so far that they fell out, so he had the chute around his neck and was running around with it, remember this is a big steel chute and an 800 pound steer, so he tore down one fence, and starts chasing my other steer around the pen, then he tears down another fence and runs into the horse pasture.  he had bent the latch that the chain ran through to keep the head gate latched.  I beat on it with a hammer but couldn't bend it back.  So i ran to the shed while he was still choking, got a wrench, and undid the head gate.  Through all of this he didn't have but one scratch.

i figured yalld like the belts too

This past October i seen this 15 year oldish boy at KILE fitting his hefier. Well you know IPODS are everywhere and music makes work go by a lot easier. Well this boy was getting down singing loudly to an Eminim song...even using an adhesive can as a mike. Everyone going around the corner where his chute was was cracking up and some people even went to go get their friends for the show. His poor heifer look fustrated guess this is a common thing while fitting for her. Well the poor kid finally looked up and turned 6 shades of red and got quite and finished up. Well later the kid didnt do soo well and these kids he was hanging out said"Just Loose it"  which was the Eminim song he was singing earlier. ;D

This didn't happen at a show but one time I was clipping a heifer for a kid that was going to our state fair. When I got there they helped me get her in the chute. I started clipping and pretty soon turned around and they were all gone. I never charge a kid but I expect them to stay around to learn. Anyway I got up to clip her head and she threw a fit so I put the nose tongs in her and clipped her head. She fought the whole time and when I got done I took the tongs out and to get even I punched her in the nose. (Still mad at the heifer and the family for leaving). Went to clip a little more on her neck and she started rocking back and forth in the chute. All of the sudden the chute falls on me, she's got her leg's on God's green earth and takes off. The chute catches me in the back and away we go. I am looking at her back feet about 6 inches from my face. She runs a way's dragging me behind her and all of the sudden she runs by a BIG cotten wood tree with it's roots sticking above ground. The bottom of the chute hit this and it popped over me hitting me in the back of the head but I was FREE. She ran a little farther into a corner just as the family pulled up. I said "Your heifer is done can you help me get her out of the chute". (argue)

I have seen a bunch of crazy things at shows and sales, and I can't decide which one would rank as the craziest. So... here are a few that come to mind...

Several years ago, when there was still a Chianina show at Canadian Western Agribition, I saw two guys washing a mature Chi fullblood bull and they were using garden rakes to try and pull the tag off his rear quarters and belly. One guy would spray an area with water while the other one would reach around a cement wall and try to hook the rack on some manure tag and try to pull it off. It was quite a show. It was not safe for anyone else to enter the wash rack so they had the place to themselves. 

One year, I was at the Pacific National Exhibition at Vancouver, and I saw a Simmental yearling heifer get away from a girl. Several of us tried to calmly get around the heifer, and she decided to take of and ran into the Pacific Ocean and started to swim heading West towards Japan. The last I saw her she was far out in the ocean and I heard later that day that the heifer had been picked up by a tug boat almost 2 miles out in the ocean. Guess by the time she got that far, she was beginning to think that people weren't too bad as she had calmed down and they were able to lift her into the boat with a winch.
The PNE is situated right on the Pacific Ocean and it is quite a beautiful location for a major show. The next morning, following the swimming heifer, a large cougar was found sleeping in a large flower exhibit just inside the main entrance of the show.

Four years ago, I was Beef Chairman at Agribition, and we hosted the World Minature Hereford show and sale. I think this group of people created more problems and issues for me than all the other breeds and exhibitors combined. Several of the Minature Hereford exhibitors insisted on leaving their yearling bulls and heifers loose in their stalls. I remember asking one lady to tie her bull up with both a halter and a neck rope. She said she would guarantee that her bull would not go more than two isles away if he was left loose. It didn't happen!!  And this woman was mad at me all week. Several others insisted on leaving their animals loose in the tie outs .... again a definite no-no.

I also remember a Murray Grey exhibitor who brought attention to his exhibit by tieing helium filled balloons on the halters of his animals. As they were led down the isles, the balloons bounced with each step.... actually was quite impressive.... NOT!

There are many other stories.

Last year at the American Royal we were watching the Branvieh show and were noticing that the heifers were pretty ripe and feeling their oats pretty good. Well eventually one heifer exploded and went running out of the ring at full speed jumped the nice white fence in the show ring and when they had her cornered to catch her she took down the red cattle panels used for tieng up cattle around the show ring that at the time had 3 yearling heifers tied to it . They eventually got the heifer caught and setteled down somehow and of course the judge went on placing the class without the heifer there and his comment for the escapee heifer was " I have to commend the last place heifer for excelling in agility of clearing gates" truly was an interesting sight and made me a little leary of those pretty little branvieh cattle

kanshow said:

I saw a woman chase a kid down for his crackers!!! (clapping) 

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You are SO bad, I think you brought this thread up again just to make fun of me.  I promise to never make an ass out of myself in from of you again!  <beer>

One year us 4-hers decided to play a sick joke on people going threw the barn. So we stuffed a pair of pants with hay and stuck it under my big old Murray grey cow (and no I’m not the one who ties balloons to their halters  ;D ) one of our group sat outside the barn (it was a pole barn) snapping fishing line that was attached to a leg of the pants. We also started playing the goodbye earl song over and over again. For the most part people where laughing at it. Well one woman walked threw and started screaming, and having a panic attack. the adults come flying in wondering what the heck is going on, start trying to calm the woman down, at this point my cow decides to stand up and reveal its just a pair of pants. Then this lady starts laughing hysterically...we never tried that one again...


Same cow, but at a diff. show we had a group of PETA members come swarming threw the show letting tons of animals lose. Dogs from the agility and obedience trials, ducks, rabbits, everything. I went flying back to the barn and see this woman waving her hands and shooing my untied grey cow (mind you this girl is massive) and screaming run free, be free at her. and here’s my cow looking at her like she was insane, at this point the woman’s pulled the rest of the halter off of her head and gets her turned around facing the outside. I run up and wrap my arms around my cow ( I was 11 at the time) horrified that if she got lose in a busy fairground someone would get hurt. Talk about nuts this woman grabs me by the arm trying to pry me off my own animal, at this point my cows had enough, tosses her head and sends the woman three across the isle. You would think she would have gotten the point but instead she starts  screaming at me for basically brainwashing her...nutso... thankfully a friend of mine put a belt around my cows neck till we could get my halter, and the cops could escort the crazies off the grounds. thankfully everything was caught but one rabbit that went missing.

Very similar to another one already posted (guess it's more common that we realized) ~ both steers were tied out on the same board and jerked back at the same time causing the board to come completely off the barn.  Ones tie ring came out of the board and he went over and stood with the heifers.    The other steer continued on backwards dragging/bouncing the board toward my husband about waist high.    We got him to calm enough to get a foot on the board and a hand on his halter.  It was quite the scene for early morning show goers. 

PaFFA Proud said:

This past October i seen this 15 year oldish boy at KILE fitting his hefier. Well you know IPODS are everywhere and music makes work go by a lot easier. Well this boy was getting down singing loudly to an Eminim song...even using an adhesive can as a mike. Everyone going around the corner where his chute was was cracking up and some people even went to go get their friends for the show. His poor heifer look fustrated guess this is a common thing while fitting for her. Well the poor kid finally looked up and turned 6 shades of red and got quite and finished up. Well later the kid didnt do soo well and these kids he was hanging out said"Just Loose it"  which was the Eminim song he was singing earlier. ;D

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This reminds me, you stop clipping and fitting with head phones in when you cut the cords off of yours, and your moms headphones in a two day period. ;D Although running the cord through your jacket or shirt does seem to help.

stangs13 said:

PaFFA Proud said:

This past October i seen this 15 year oldish boy at KILE fitting his hefier. Well you know IPODS are everywhere and music makes work go by a lot easier. Well this boy was getting down singing loudly to an Eminim song...even using an adhesive can as a mike. Everyone going around the corner where his chute was was cracking up and some people even went to go get their friends for the show. His poor heifer look fustrated guess this is a common thing while fitting for her. Well the poor kid finally looked up and turned 6 shades of red and got quite and finished up. Well later the kid didnt do soo well and these kids he was hanging out said"Just Loose it"  which was the Eminim song he was singing earlier. ;D

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This reminds me, you stop clipping and fitting with head phones in when you cut the cords off of yours, and your moms headphones in a two day period. ;D Although running the cord through your jacket or shirt does seem to help.

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I put my MP3 player under my hat when clipping

I was at a show back in the 80's had a breeder tell me that he when though 30 broom handles that year sicking then though the spokes of bikes while he was sit bye his cattle he said they stop pretty fast when you do that

You are SO bad, I think you brought this thread up again just to make fun of me.  I promise to never make an ass out of myself in from of you again!   

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Lets just say it was a welcome relief from all the other drama!!!  What you really should do is think of a way to top that!!!    It's probably my turn to make a smooth move like that in public!!!     

Diamond said:

One year us 4-hers decided to play a sick joke on people going threw the barn. So we stuffed a pair of pants with hay and stuck it under my big old Murray grey cow (and no I’m not the one who ties balloons to their halters  ;D ) one of our group sat outside the barn (it was a pole barn) snapping fishing line that was attached to a leg of the pants. We also started playing the goodbye earl song over and over again. For the most part people where laughing at it. Well one woman walked threw and started screaming, and having a panic attack. the adults come flying in wondering what the heck is going on, start trying to calm the woman down, at this point my cow decides to stand up and reveal its just a pair of pants. Then this lady starts laughing hysterically...we never tried that one again...


Same cow, but at a diff. show we had a group of PETA members come swarming threw the show letting tons of animals lose. Dogs from the agility and obedience trials, ducks, rabbits, everything. I went flying back to the barn and see this woman waving her hands and shooing my untied grey cow (mind you this girl is massive) and screaming run free, be free at her. and here’s my cow looking at her like she was insane, at this point the woman’s pulled the rest of the halter off of her head and gets her turned around facing the outside. I run up and wrap my arms around my cow ( I was 11 at the time) horrified that if she got lose in a busy fairground someone would get hurt. Talk about nuts this woman grabs me by the arm trying to pry me off my own animal, at this point my cows had enough, tosses her head and sends the woman three across the isle. You would think she would have gotten the point but instead she starts  screaming at me for basically brainwashing her...nutso... thankfully a friend of mine put a belt around my cows neck till we could get my halter, and the cops could escort the crazies off the grounds. thankfully everything was caught but one rabbit that went missing.

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I always wondered if peta ever did stuff like that. I wish I would have been there. In the caos you would have seen some hillbilly running around pounding on the peta people. What a great rreason to take out your frustrations on those folks lol. I can't believe nobody knocked any of those freaks out.
Thats is a great story. Thanks for sharing. I'm still giggling.