How did everyone fair in Houston?

[BIGTEX]

Just wondering how everyone did.

 

[skeeter]

2 kids in our county have showed so far.  1st place light weight Angus and 3rd place light weight Red Angus.  both calves from Dustin Glover, calves are small framed, big top and butt and looked really nice when slicked.  both families are very happy and getting to stay around for sale Saturday.

 

[DCC show cattle]

3rd abc for our senior year just nothing to pair us with for 1st and too soft and a really close friend placed 4th gert and branded her first one ever! I was so proud of her and she has only shown steers here two years

 

[skeeter]

3rd abc for our senior year just nothing to pair us with for 1st and too soft and a really close friend placed 4th gert and branded her first one ever! I was so proud of her and she has only shown steers here two years

congratulations!  don't you just love it when new showmen and ladies do good.  the 1st place Angus was my neighbor's boy, first year showing, has worked his rear end off all year long.  got the gate at FW, one place out of the sale at San Antonio, classed out at San Angelo, then FINALLY, a 1st at Houston.  had the whole family in tears, his hard work and staying the course paid off.  he has 2 steers in pen at home for next year and said he can't wait to get home and get to work.  Every once in a while this whole thing works!

 

[Simmymom1]

          (thumbsup)    Chambero's kiddos show today in the Heayweight Maines!!  Good Luck!!

 

[cebwtx]

I know there has been a lot of talk good and bad about certain people winning and  I am sure this won't help how some feel about everything , but Justin James of Prosper just won the chi champion. It does not affect me either way, just found it interesting with all of the talk that preceded the show. Guess all will have to wait and see how it turns out for the overall.

 

[Bulldaddy]

Jeff has some interesting insight regarding the Houston steer judge on his blog at  http://www.cattle.com/

 

[Burnetaggie99]

We have not showed yet, we are in the middle weight Maines. So far I like the fact he judges a steer on meat and finish. Very differant than the San Antonio guy. Our steer finsihed 3 spots out of making the sale in San Antonio but in the simmys. Our steer walks very good has, a huge top, good muscle but we are average in the butt. I noticed Randy really looks hard at the butt. I just hope we get pulled because we have a good steer that has profile, muscle, soundness, finish, and a huge top just lack a little in the britches.

 

[chambero]

Judge is doing fine as far as I'm concerned.  I did watch the Chis and thought the James calf was plenty good.  I like that our major judges this year put a lot more emphasis on balance than muscle.

Our calf I'd likely too big to do anything today.  He has the body and muscle to match his frame, but I gambled and lost on there being four classes of Maines.  I needed him in a class of nothing but big boys.

 

[kobo_ranch]

Our county kids have all done pretty good... A 4th place in light weight AOB, we got a 13th (out of the money..64 in class I think) in the heavy AOB class, a 7th in the Hereford class (one slot out), another 7th in the ABC (simbrah steer) another 4th place, and a 12th place.  Total of 3 of the kids just missed the sale slot.  I may be missing someone but don't think so. All but about 3-4 4 of the kids got pulled or placed a calf.

I think the judge did a good job overall.  Seemed pretty consistant.  We were happy.  Our calf would have placed higher if he'd been just a little cleaner fronted.  He walked great and had a really nice top, we put him in AOB because I had to be back today.  I thought he was too big for the heavy maine class and maybe a tad too tall.  But who knows?  We felt good especially since it was our first year back at it and with our ranch raised steer.  Maybe we can get him placed at Austin.  (Son did catch the 1st calf at the scramble on Monday so we were happy about that)
All our county kids did a awesome job!  (clapping)

 

[Burnetaggie99]

We finished 13th out of 50, Out of the money but we missed being in the Light Weight class by 2 pounds and thats were we really needed to be.

 

[chambero]

My son was the third calf pulled in the heavy Maines.  Judge really liked him- till my son got about 20 steps there and he realized how big he was.  He followed my boy over and asked what his calf weighed.  Upon ansering, he told Skaggs to pull him out and sent him out the gate.  Just broke my boys heart. 

 

[JSchroeder]

What did he weigh?

 

[chambero]

He was too big- 1410.  In hindsight, I could have gotten by with turning him at 1390, but that was still too heavy for this guy (as it should have been).  I was never able to put the brakes on this calf because we had such a hard time getting him fat.  I thought there would be four classes of Maines.  I should have run him chi or Aob.  He was a good calf but but 150 lbs and 1.5 inches too tall.

 

[JSchroeder]

He was adding about 50lbs to what the kids told him any way.  If your kid would have told him 1390 he would have assumed mid 1400s.  We had a 1345 lb calf we bred that made the cut but missed the sale because "1400 is just too big".

He went into a bit of discussion on it during the heavy ABC class and said he felt bad for those big calves but just couldn't use them.  He said there's only two types of calves, those that won't grow and those that won't stop growing.

 

[BAILEYFARMS]

When do the crosses show.

 

[DCC show cattle]

He was adding about 50lbs to what the kids told him any way.  If your kid would have told him 1390 he would have assumed mid 1400s.  We had a 1345 lb calf we bred that made the cut but missed the sale because "1400 is just too big".

He went into a bit of discussion on it during the heavy ABC class and said he felt bad for those big calves but just couldn't use them.  He said there's only two types of calves, those that won't grow and those that won't stop growing.

I knew i almost told him 1250 in our heavyweight abc class! I was 3rd weighing 1287 yet his first and second place calves were 1250's 

 

[chambero]

He was consistent about it at least.

 

[Sammy]

that is a shame on being deemed too big at 1400 - I know that the judges figure that you shrink them a good bit and they are larger than that - but to me the university guys should at least consider that there are no discounts up to 900 pound carcass weights and some packers don't discount until over 1000 carcass weight - with that a 1450 weight @ 62% gets you a 899 carcass - the name of the game for the kids to learn is beef production/rate of gain/profit, so in essence you impose a penalty on an exhibitor that has an animal that excels in growth and probably use an animal with lower growth and can be held easier - I know that it is a steer show, but just sayin' - think of a few years ago when we needed to shrink steers really hard as there were some 1250 pound limits - and then we wanted them just under 1300 - and now you are generally OK to say 1350 - styles and production methods have changed - and just last week I notice that the choice/select carcass price spread was only 2 cents so why do they have to be so fat?  again, just sayin' - and we always want big butts on them, same here when I judged a few shows - but in reality that does not make much sense when that is some of the lower priced meat on the carcass - again just sayin" -

 

[stangs13]

Moving in heifers tomorrow morning..going to be a long weekend ahead!!