Our county fair is definately a black steer show. I think there were 2 non black animals there last year. And mainly angus. Well, looks like we are going to have a red angus - but really really nice - and a hereford. The hereford breeder almost tried to talk us out of it because he won't win with that one. But with his last year being soooo bad dealing with the rank SOB we had, we really wanted to try and build his confidence with a much more mellow steer. The Angus is coming from grandpa so not much choice there - though my dad and brother say he's the best calf they've ever had and they have raised mainly of the 1st place steers in their county and had the grand champion one at least one year. So I have no doubt he's nice. And the hereford breeder (85 years old and still taking care of his cows everyday) had already sold all his steers but had held back 5 or 6 of the best for replacement bulls and said we could have 1 of those - so should be a nice steer.
Will post pictures after Thanksgiving once we get them all home. We will stick out like a sore thumb next year, but hopefully it will be a more fun year for the boy.
For fair they have to be between 1050 and 1450 with the first weigh in being in February and the final the end of July. There is no rate of gain requirement to sell at fair even though there is a rate of gain contest. Both calves are around 500+ right now so we are going to do our best to get them fed up as near 1000 as we can by the feb weigh in and then just work on maintaining and finishing until fair. We struggled so hard with weight last year and a couple of the leaders recommended that for us for this year.
I hate being new in something and not knowing at all what we are doing.
Will post pictures after Thanksgiving once we get them all home. We will stick out like a sore thumb next year, but hopefully it will be a more fun year for the boy.
For fair they have to be between 1050 and 1450 with the first weigh in being in February and the final the end of July. There is no rate of gain requirement to sell at fair even though there is a rate of gain contest. Both calves are around 500+ right now so we are going to do our best to get them fed up as near 1000 as we can by the feb weigh in and then just work on maintaining and finishing until fair. We struggled so hard with weight last year and a couple of the leaders recommended that for us for this year.
I hate being new in something and not knowing at all what we are doing.