See a pattern here? Yellowjacket is consistent if nothing else.
These photos are from my son's steer we raised last year. He won Reserve Grand for us at a good size prospect show in north Texas in November, but just got too big and not fat enough for San Antonio/Houston. Actually, I screwed Houston up by running him Maine. I thought there would be four classes and they only broke to three. This calf was the third steer the judge pulled in the heavy Maines, but the judge did a double-take a few minutes later and booted us completely out of the lineup and the ring when he realized we were just way too heavy for his taste (well over 1400 lbs).
A year ago, this calf weighed 1100 on 9/20.
My advice to both of you with the YJ calves: start pouring the corn and fat supplements to them now to get them as fat as possible as soon as possible. They just keep growing - they don't hit a wall and stop. So you've got to have them fat early in order to allow you to hold them at the end. We've got a full sister we are showing this year that is turning out the same way.
but it's also about 110 degrees at my fair so it's understandable why we slick. Better on the calves
