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Show heifers and steers.

MN Farm Girl

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These first three pics are of the heifers that I had posted last winter. They are now a year old.

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Marshmallow. She is the pet of the bunch. Weighed 1025 on April 8.


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Cloud. 1100 pounds on April 8.

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Sunshine. 990 on April 8. This isn't the best picture of her. She was really rowdy to night. I have used the breaking halter that Norhtern Rancher posted. It really works :D Thanks NR.
We weighed the heifers on the average on the 3 of them was 1030.

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Fat steers. I stood on a ladder that was leaned up against the holding bin. We weighed them on April 8. The average on 7 head was 1025. That included a small heifer that is in there. She is smaller because she's a twin.

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Three of the biggest steers.

MN Farm Girl
 

Turkey Track Bar

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MN Farm Girl!

Thanks for the nice pics....

I did notice that in the picture of "Cloud," you (or whoever is showing her) has the lead rope is wrapped around your hand!

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Cloud. 1100 pounds on April 8.


PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS!!!!

Even the most gentle, tame animal can spook. I personally know of at least five people who have lost hands, fingers, or in one case was drug to death because of wrapping lead ropes around their hands or bodies. In one case the person had the slack in coils, like a lariat rope, but was holding them very tight, and when his horse spooked and pulled back, the slack tightened up, and pulled his fingers right off.

I am not trying to be a nag, but trying to encourage you to be safe.

If you need to gather up the slack (extra) in the rope, do it in a figure eight fashion, or cut the extra.

Also, showmanship wise, Cloud will look better if you set her up with her feet under her instead of so far out in front and behind her. Practice makes perfect, and allowing her to set up like this now, just lets her think this is the way she should set up when you show her at shows.

Hope this helps....

Above all else, remember your safety.

They are looking good...keep up the good work.

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 

MN Farm Girl

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Turkey Track. That's me, I know it is a bad habit to rap the lead rope around your hand. That's a habit I'm trying to break. I was trying to get her feet under her, but this was the first time I tried using the show stick. She was having trouble standing still and I didn't want to mess with her too much the first time. Tho she did very well for the first time. Thanks for correcting my mistake. :D

Pure Country. All they have had is 40 pounds of oats, 8 pounds of corn, 3 pounds of protein and a small amount of yeast per day, and all the hay they want.

MN Farm Girl
 

Aaron

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Wowza!...that is a lot of grain to be feeding!...specially for a heifer. I know years ago that the neighbour would feed his Limo 4-H steer 50-60 pounds of grain a day, but that was in the 30 days prior to slaughter!

I like the looks of the Shorthorn heifer, she is fine looking with good structure. The Char heifer is post-legged though. Steers look good. Another 2 months and they should be ready to go.
 

MN Farm Girl

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Aaron, all of those heifers are shorthorn. The one that looks post legged is one of the more timid of the bunch. She was doing good and that was the first time I used the show stick. I didn't want to mess with her too much.

Jersey, that is one days feed, fed twice on three head. Most people with show cattle around here have the heifers mud fat so they look like a steer. Then they show them as a market heifer and breeding heifer. We have been pluggin' them full of oats. Dad doesn't want them ruined. If you get a heifer that fat she won't breed. We plan to AI them and put them back in the herd.

MN Farm Girl
 

montana cowgurl

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told ya the breaking halter works :twisted: i just started my steer for this year, haha, he weighs over 1,000 and has to be ready by the middle of july. just be careful, at our fair i even have to remind people not to wrap the rope around in coils, i also know people who have been hurt. i do the figure 8 that TTB mentioned. good luck with your show animals!
 

Aaron

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I notice you like those solid white Shorthorns. You might be too young to know of the past problems with the white Shorthorns. I haven't been keeping up with the Shorthorn breed, but what it the prevalence of 'white heifer disease' in these solid white Shorthorns nowadays? Maybe some of the older show folks who remember about this problem can bring me up to date....
 
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