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My steer this year is very similar. He doesnt like eating and Im trying to get him to a late July fair. For a while he wasnt gaining, but now hes doing good. Hes about 100 heavier then your steer though. I feed him 12 lbs of Purina show feed, 3 lbs beet pulp with molasses (which he loves), Sure...

Honestly she has an ugly front, not clean fronted at all. But she has good depth. A little high in her flank but with age and feed that can be eliminated

Since it doesnt really seem like theres anything you can do, just tell everybody you know the situation and tell them to pass the word on about how its not a good place to get heifers. basically anti-advertise them.

I had a heifer that would yank her head down and try to but me, and every time she did it i would either kick her nose (while her head is down close to the ground) or smack her nose with my hand when she brought it back up. She stopped butting and putting her head down after about 5 times of me...

this might piss the owners off but throw the cows hay at night

actually the hock joint on the side of the leg not the actual hock on the back of the leg.

well i think what the judge means is that he wants the legs to look smooth, no bulges. so to accomplish that you clip the hocks tight so when you go to pull leg hair it blends into the hocks and there is no bulges. its kind of hard to explain in writing. id say get someone experienced to...

well the lady saying this said that herefords used to be called shorthorns, i guess that better clarifys my question. herefords have never been called shorthorns have they?

someone told me that herefords orignated from shorthorns but i really dont think this is true. but i wanted to do some research on it and there was no site that said this was so.

ok.....this worked like a charm! after about 10 minutes i was getting him to walk a little! this technique worked super well! ive only done it once, but with how well it worked in 10 minutes, in a couple days he will walk normally i think. thanks so much for suggesting this! you are a...

ive never even thought of that! thanks. i will try it

exactly. i agree! if it was a perfect world everyone could spend hours a day just making friends with their cattle. but in the real world no one has time for that. thats why is called "halter breaking".  cattle have to know whose boss, you, not them. you can still build a great relationship with...

I totally agree that show cattle are always wayyyy to expensive. if you think about it, they are all just meat. a $10000 jackpot champion is not going to taste any better then a market price feeder steer. i think all the high prices are outrageous. is it really worth spending all that money on a...

i agree. and also maybe he is asking opinions about her to see what would be a good price to get for her

i agree! hes is really nice for being so young! usually you cant really tell what a calf is gona look like until they are a couple months old. he seems like he has alot of muscle, and probably thickness, although the picture isnt taken from behind. hes got a pretty neck, and a really showy look...

put him in a smaller pen, big enough so that you can stand in the middle and always be touching him with a show stick. just scratch him for a couple days, and soon he will figure out that he really likes to be scratched, then you can start scratching him with your hands. soon he will be so tame...

thanks everyone! ya this steer is tame, i can catch him and tie and brush him and he doesnt fuss, its just walking he hates. He is extremely stubborn. i literally cannot get him to walk at all. if i pull hard enough he sometimes will take a step, but usually he just throws his head up and...

thanks everybody for your great suggestions it really helps, i am so relieved! im going to try all of your ideas!

oh ok! i didnt think of that! thanks!

i have a miniature donkey, do you think he will do the job or would he be too little?