No professional either but this was taken by myself with my wife on the halter. I prefer having a natural look to our calves and taken Center of the calf at slightly above shoulder height. Don't like when pictures are faded away to the rear or from the front. just my 2 cents!
We have used Blu-Kote on our black show calves and works awesome. Also have used wd-40 on calves that are red or white and have had pretty good success with it as well.
We test all our forage in the fall before bringing the cows off grass. That way you have an idea what u need for your mineral program as that is there only source of energy. An idea for your minerals with your feeding program is to use all trace boluses. It's an oral injected tablet that will...