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Thank you for your advice. That's what I was afraid of. I wish he was 100lbs heavier just so he still has good condition for our county fair the week after Houston. We have learned so much this year and next year if we decide to do majors we will get an older calf but our target is our county...

A lot of poop firmer than he usually is...

Our steer is having tummy trouble. I'm pretty sure we have burned  his stomach trying to get his weight up and finish him. He is eating lots of hay and drinking a normal amout of water. He is acting normal, like nothing is wrong but he will not touch his feed. The last time he ate a full feed...

UPDATE!!!! My son said he ate like a champ tonight including the cooked feed. It has also been in the 30's all day today.. Crazy Texas weather.

I'm not sure if the rice bran is stabilized rice bran or not but we get it at Producers and it's called OptiSheen...I believe it's a horse product...

We did use sure champ when we first brought them out of the pasture and it did help to get them on feed but when we went to finisher we stopped. Show bloom is added to our feed ration so we decided we didn't need it. We also did try cooked barley first for about a week and noticed right away he...

He always been just a so so eater so we broke it down into 3 feedings a day instead of 2 and it worked for us. His "lunch" is 1 scoop heifer feed, 1 pound beet pulp, 1 pound rice bran. I have been careful to not give too much of this during the day so he will still eat his regular feed in the...

Thats a big no way on the barley. We tried that first. He is a picky toot. The only thing he eats with any real enthusiasm is heifer feed. Thats how we get him to eat his beet pulp and rice bran. At noon I go out and give him a scoop of heifer feed mixed with the rice bran and beet pulp. He eats...

My gut instinct is to stop cooking it and just add it dry to the ration but I don't want to put him off feed completely. He is a picky eater to start with. If we weren't so short on time I would try mixing a little at a time over a week to see how he does but it's too late for that.  If he goes...

Yes that is our experience too. The one heifer is a eating machine and she was starting to get fat roll on her back so we cut her off. Now she pouts when we give the corn to the others and not her.  Our poor little steer needs help. We have realistly low expectations about Houston and are...

After three weeks of throwing the cooked corn out of the feeder to the chickens we have decided our steer doesn't like it. He was wormed on Feb 15 and gets weekly probiotics. We were hoping to get to 1250lbs by 3-18 but at this point we will settle for 1200. We know the cooked corn works because...

What can I say about today's jackpot show??? They served some mighty fine hot dogs. (lol)

I'm not an expert and these people on here really know their stuff but I would suggest going to a finisher ration, worm every 30 days, use a gel probiotic every week and sure champ supplement. You may want to consider an implant but I know next to nothing about them and we don't use one.

Doing some research and looking for a place to start. What are the best American bulls that have semen available that could be used with a beefmaster heifer?

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I hate to feel like I'm pestering people but it get more information on here than form anyone at our county. How would a calf that has a registered beef master sire and a 7/8 beefmaster 1/8 limmie momma classify at Houston? ABC or is there a beefmaster class?

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I just took this picture a few minutes ago. We had his feet trimmed two weeks ago and we are taking him back on the 10th because he still wants to stand with his front feet splayed out. We also started his hair cut because it got so hot here and he wouldn't eat. We are finishing it tonight...

The kind words and advice on this board have made me feel much better about taking this project to Houston. We are very realistic about our chances and know we are just going for the learning experience. I just like to gather as much information as I can before I proceed.  It's a huge...

Thank everyone for your replies. I am more on the "work your way up to the majors" side of this but my DH is a plow right in type of guy. I think we should at least be as experienced with cattle as we are with broilers and we plan on raising them for Houston next year. I have to work at being...