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Kid's 4H picks!

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Megan's steer.
 
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Ty's steer and Sara is going to show that Major League calf I posted before-calves are a bit dull today-just got castrated and three vaccines-anybody want to guess the order they'll place next spring.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Well it will be interesting to see lol. I guess if you drove up and judged for us you'd be right for sure lol.
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I don't own a rig that would survive the trip. :lol: I'd have to buy new clothes too. I need a 200X hat, A white long sleeved shirt and a dark tie, a pair of tan wranglers, a belt with a brass plate on the side with my name engraved on it, a pair of low heel tall topped boots with my ranch brand stiched on the tops, and a cell phone to talk on between classes. :lol: then I'd be a real judge. :lol: :lol: I could probably get as close from the computer as some of those college boys can standing in the ring with them.
 
Megan, Sara, Emily, Ty. But what do I know??? We raise Herefords X Simmental! It could be the two blacks one, two, bwf third, and the red calf last.
 
If they were showing them here (and if it was like it has been the last few years), the Black Baldy would take it all, followed by the two blacks (it wouldn't matter which, either, as long as they're the "right" color :roll: )and finally the red one.......

The way I'd personally place them would be

1. Megan
2. Emily
3. Sara
4. Ty

They are all nice looking steers, though.........it's great to be able to raise your kids' 4-H projects......or have them do it themselves...... :wink:


But what do I know? :? I think Miss Tillerie is the perdiest thang on our place..........:nod:
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Off topic, but still interested in the answer.............:D

Down here, they have a County-Bred Steer Show (it's discrimination, ya know.......they should have a County-Bred Heifer Show, too! :nod:).........do you guys have anything like that up there? And if so, do your kids enter it, as well as the regular show?
 
Northern Rancher said:
It's OK were not having our cattle show on Halloween-you don't need to dress up lol.
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I'd not be wearing what I described. Too slick for an ugly man like me.
I saw Dave Nichols judge a show at Denver and he looked like Ben Matlock the lawyer after a long night on the town. :lol: He saw the cattle though and had the seamless championship drive a breeder would put together from a good set of cattle. I saw a well known colledge professor judge one a couple years back and he confused the onlookers more than a world class magician could. He jumped right out after those big fat out of age heifer calves with big epd's . Got to the senior heifers and to use the same type he had to use mooses. He couldn't stand that so he went with conventional , nice kind of senior heifers without much ww or yw epd. He turned around and made the same mistake with the bulls. You could tell he didn't have a plan or a clue. I felt sorry for him . He's well respected in the industry and was sure out of place in the ring.
 
1. Me
2. Me
3. Me
4. Me

Thats my order since the internet is so slow that it wont load the pics tonight. lol.

NR, ya gettin some fo the wet stuff and a lil electricity from the weatherguys in Alta? I had to quit combining cause it was so wet it was clogging up the rotors. lol.

Later
 
Ranchy I'd say 90 percent of the 4H calves shown at club and district level up here are home grown calves. That baldy steer of Ty's is from his 4H heifer from two years back and she was a calf from his project the year before lol. We like to win but not crazy about it-our steers are pretty young to show the first week of June against Feb. calves. We've won grand three times at district with females though-alot of those big old oxey heifers don't show up with a calf to show as a pair.
 
I'll tell you after the show-we got them weaned with no troubles and started on feed so that's going well. We'll never win a grand championship with our steers as we calve late but we have one three with our heifers. I just hope the potlicker is half quiet for her lol.
 
It's not all about winning but if the kids learn something. I have 2 that will show in 4-H this year and one is showing a raised club calf and the youngest bought hers for this year. My son is more proud to have a calf he raised to show than he is about winning. I keep telling them as long as they know what is wrong or right with their calves that is the point. The judge is only one person on one day.
 

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