My daughter is 9, last years steer pushed her around because he thought he was a dog, didn't understand he was a cow. We got him as a bottle baby and and lead him from the time he was little. This years steer is already about 650 - 700 lbs and hasn't been lead yet or had a halter on. He is settling very nicely and is really coming around. I am planning on finishing the fitting chute on Saturday and trying it out on him so I can get a halter on him and see how he does leading. When my older daughter showed her steer years ago, we taught it to lead by backing the tractor up to the door and tieing the steer to the tractor and driving up and down the road every day for a couple weeks until you could lead him with no problem. I really don't want to do that with this one. How do you guys do it? My barn is and old bank barn set up for horse tie stalls and so the stall he is in right now has 3 dividers in it. I plan on blocking off part of the shed and creating a kind of show ring for her to work in this winter to lead him in and work him. Is this a good idea? Will having the horses on the other side of the round pen panels help calm him when he is actually at the show with people around? What are your ideas? I don't want to leave his halter on all the time because he could get the lead caught on something and hurt himself so should I put a horse halter on him and let that on him? We have only shown 2 steers in the past and they were both fly by our pants, no one to help. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks