Hey everyone i would love some opinions on my county steers! Our show isnt super competitive or huge but i was just wondering what others thought. Thanks a lot! The blue is a shorthorn simmi cross and the black is 7/8ths simmi. I dont have current weights for either of them but the solid is a...
no i dont have a blower, ive only showed for four years and this last year was the first year i did more than our local county fair. i havnt asked sdsu about showing yet, i just was wondering if a lot of schools have students show.
i am doing my last year showing with T&J Farms because i will be graduating and moving to south dakota next fall. I am showing some really nice calves this year and doing more than just my county fair. do you think it would be worth buying a blower to use for the year? When i get to sdsu i...
i tried looking for another thread that adressed this but didnt find one. I really want to take my old purebred shorthorn heifer (now cow) to show as a cow calf pair but i havnt led her in almost a year. She was always a little rammy but showed really nice and gentle in the ring. Now that she...
i didnt mean the comment about my steer being red to seem like i thought that was the reason he didnt win. we talked to the judge and his family said that he prefered a larger heavier breed. he likes fat and black. i wouldnt make excuses for why i didnt do better, i understand why we didnt. ...
Thanks everyone for the kind words. It really helps :) This year i am raising two larger steers. They are shorthorn simmi crosses. Since they are larger framed i am worried about not having them finish in time. We feed a more traditional diet or corn molasses and oats supplmented with...
the judge at my county fair didnt give my steer a second look in the ring, said he was too light and missing to many parts and pices to be raised higher in the class for overall market. He went into the overall by defult because he was the only one in his class. The judge then proceded to...