working calf hair

Our county show is a slick hair show and I was wandering if its best to rinse and blow the hair daily like I would for a calf in a hair show. My son washes him once a week but brushes daily . We are new to steers and are learning as we go.

Thanks for any input

You'll be clipping that hair right off so it would be detrimental to have more hair.. acts as an insulator so it will trap heat, raising body temp, reducing appetite.

Hair health is very important in slick shear steers as well.  You will want healthy skin and coat when you do slick him off for show.  You may also want to jackpot your steer leading up to your target show and if so you will want to have a nice trained hair coat to look your best in the ring.  G-Luck

Ditto what Rackranch said.

I'll use my boys as an example.  I've got a freshman and a 6th grader.  They both play football and are very active in other aspects of 4-H/FFA, get very good grades, etc + help us take care of our 250 hd cow/calf operation.  Every year, we have 6-8 steers/heifers in the barn.  They/we physically do not have time to rinse and blow their calves every day. It's sacreligous to admit it, but we don't.  In the summer, each calf gets done 3-4 times per week, in the fall it's honestly probably closer to 1.5 times a week (1-2 calves always separate themselves as being the best by then).  And then come Christmas break we really get back after it and calves get worked maybe 3 times a week.

Granted we live in north central Texas and have a pretty cool (as in temperature) barn, but using this method we always have plenty of hair for Fort Worth, and have our share of success at the majors.  But I am a believer in a kid being a little more well rounded than just being a barn rat.

Long story short- you work the hair on a "slick" calf just like you do ones that are destined for hair shows, but in all honesty getting a bath a couple of times a week is enough. 

You have to start with a good calf and then make or break a show steer by how you regularly and consistently you feed them.  It doesn't sound sexy, but that's the truth of it.  Turning them out together and dumping feed to them once a day doesn't cut it.  They need fed by themselves twice a day, same time every day, and turned out at night to get exercise. 

Thanks for all the input. As stated I must have a barn rat on my hands because he absolute loves working his steer. He is at the barn every morning at 5 for about a hour and a half then again every evening for  at least three hours.
I was just afraid he was over working his hair. He is learning something new every day.