twistedhshowstock
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Its basically just like everything else, it doesnt matter what their actual parentage is, as long as they meet enough breed characteristic to classify. Just like some of the steers that run angus probably dont have a lot of angus in them, just enough to give them angus characteristics. For the american steers they just have to exhibit enough breed characteristic to classify, thats why you see a lot of people trying to sneak some in there. If they have a steer for instance that doesnt have enough muscle to compete in one of the exotic type breeds and the steer is a little trashier fronted, some people will try to sneak them into one of the American breeds to make them more competitive, and like ShowStopper said a lot of those steers will not classify American because the only american trait they exhibit is being leathery in the front. The Americans also have to have a longer ear, and for the brahmans they should also have a hump.
Like they said before, a fullblood beefmaster will have absolutely no issue classing American, but even for an American this one has a lot of extra leather. And to answer your question, yes a lot of the American breeds are making a consious effort to try and make their cattle cleaner fronted and cleaner underlined. If you look at enough of them you will see a lot of Beefmasters for instance these days that hardly have any navel, and many that are much cleaner fronted than this calf.
As far as the hair question, at most texas shows we wouldnt worry so much about hair, but Ft Worth is still a full fit steer show, and yes even the Americans will have a ton of hair there. So he is going to have to have hair to be seriously competitive, but there are a lot of beefmasters out there that will grow hair just like everything else. I personally dealt with 2 beefmaster heifers last year that would make a lot of clubby people jeaolous with the amount of hair they grew just being under fans, but in the heifer ring beefmasters have to show with all hair laying flat to their body, so we just clipped it all off anyway.
But its not a matter of what % Brahman they are in the show ring, its a matter of what traits they exhibit that will allow them to class.
Like they said before, a fullblood beefmaster will have absolutely no issue classing American, but even for an American this one has a lot of extra leather. And to answer your question, yes a lot of the American breeds are making a consious effort to try and make their cattle cleaner fronted and cleaner underlined. If you look at enough of them you will see a lot of Beefmasters for instance these days that hardly have any navel, and many that are much cleaner fronted than this calf.
As far as the hair question, at most texas shows we wouldnt worry so much about hair, but Ft Worth is still a full fit steer show, and yes even the Americans will have a ton of hair there. So he is going to have to have hair to be seriously competitive, but there are a lot of beefmasters out there that will grow hair just like everything else. I personally dealt with 2 beefmaster heifers last year that would make a lot of clubby people jeaolous with the amount of hair they grew just being under fans, but in the heifer ring beefmasters have to show with all hair laying flat to their body, so we just clipped it all off anyway.
But its not a matter of what % Brahman they are in the show ring, its a matter of what traits they exhibit that will allow them to class.
