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Is it totally stupid to consider trying to take a hereford steer for 4-H next year?  I know they aren't popular right now, but after the year we had this year, we really need to find a gentler steer to help my son get his courage back.  But don't want to get him laughed out of the ring.

I hope so too.  We are seriously considering changing clubs.  I thought joining the biggest club in the county they would have all their stuff together.  Other than making sure the kids went to the main meetings and got their 2 community service things done, they actually never did anything...

From being a new 4-H beef family and even after county fair having no idea who our beef leader was, these are some of the things I would like to have seen Checklist of everything that needs done during the year - we missed one of the classes we had to take for the carcase contest A Showmanship...

We fed Optizyme all summer to the steer - never had any issues.  It's usually used in horses, but is good in cattle also.  It was like $12.50 a bag and we went through a bag a month.