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My son has a steer in the final finishing stages.  We are thinking about feeding him Fresh & feminine to clean up his front end a little bit.  Does anyone out there have experience feeding this supplement?  As we head into the final stage of fattening heading into our county fair and State Fair...

This show season we have a calf that has more white and more hair than any other calf we have had in the past.  My question to all you pros out there in this haired cattle world,  what can I use on their hair in the places of the quarters, lower legs and their chest floor to get the stains out...

5PCC, thanks for that I think you understand my situation...it bothers me to rush through the barn work because it never fails you forget something and in our experience the important stuff..the age of the kids are 11  down to  twins that are 7....the hustle and rushing around get crazy and to...

Do any of you out there have experience trying to juggle the show life along with sports in your young children?  When I was growing up I could not do it all, the sports just over lapped each other too much to give any one thing the attention it needed to be good so I chose the sports side. ...

Thanks, tallcool. I really do appreciate your input. We live in central Texas, so it is hot and humid. This morning it 75 degrees and 90% humidity and the steer is puffing like its 100 degrees outside. We have fed many slick steers, but this is our first haired calf and I'm now convinced heat is...

Thanks for your input. Your right vc his conversion is terrible right now. As a calf in the spring he was converting 1 to 4. It was also cooler. He is massively hairy right now and I think that is most of the problem. He is a heatwave out of a monopoly daughter. Our ration consists of ground...

he is only gaining about 1.8-1.9.  In a 14 day span he gained 5 pounds.  The trap he is in there is not much grazing it is more for free exercising for him in the evenings since he is tied up all day under fans and a port-a-cool.  We feed other cattle straight ground shelled corn and they gain...

Yes he is getting roughage.  We feed 2# of alfalfa and he can graze as well in the evenings.

Ok we are about to pull out hair out trying to get this calf to eat consistently.  We have tried everything from Liquafat, Glu-coat, and now we are cooking his corn nightly and adding molasses to his ration.  He will nearly clean up his feed in the night feeding the first day he has a new...

Ok we are about to pull out hair out trying to get this calf to eat consistently.  We have tried everything from Liquafat, Glu-coat, and now we are cooking his corn nightly and adding molasses to his ration.  He will nearly clean up his feed in the night feeding the first day he has a new...