Clipping question

[Show Steaks]

I live in iowa where most steers are shaggy haired at fair (at least the good ones are) and everyone at fair makes an attempt to pulll up the little leg hair they have on an angus or just commercial steer. I was wondering how off my rocker i am to slick shear my steers this year.
One steer is a purebred angus, and you guessed it nearly no hair at all
Other steer is a My turn that was a complete yak this winter and early spring but lost all his hair when i quit working with it, his leg hair isn't trained so it won't look good trying to pull it up. am i going to look too out of place if i slick shear my steers at an iowa county fair where no one else does?

 

[Jill]

am i going to look too out of place if i slick shear my steers at an iowa county fair where no one else does?

You already know the anwser to this question, so what is it you're asking?

 

[herefordfootball]

Off your rocker? If you are slick shearing your calves for show at a show that isnt a slick shear show, in book you have no rocker at all.

I dont wanna sound brutal, but everyone needs all the help they can get in when it comes to catching the judges eye, and if you dont fit your calves, then they wont seem as eye appealing as the other calves.
But then again if you slick them you will catch his eye for sure, but not in a good way. 

 

[savaged]

You better have one heck of a steer.

 

[TexasHeat]

Only in Texas

 

[Show Steaks]

My steers don't have musch hair and the little hair they have isn't trained so it looks horrible when you glue it and pull it up alomost makes the calf look worse doing that

 

[afhm]

Start training it now, it'll look better at county and shuold be in good shape come state fair time.

 

[herefordfootball]

Best way to train your hair in my book is: when you rinse take a rice brush out the wash rack with you, rinse all the hair, then take the rice brush and pull all the hair down, every bit of it, then rinse foward, keep doing this for about three or four times, do it twice a day. Then when you blow  out take a stimulator comb and pull all the hair foward except the leg hair. Take your comb and pull the hair on the legs up, then take your rotobrush over the legs but just up to the knee. Blow the hair foward on the body and up on the legs. While you blow it up on the legs pull the hair up with the stimulator comb at the same time.

When you brush the hair down at the washrack, if it still has kinks or curls or whatever brush the hair back twice in that spot then brush it down.