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Oh so stressed! I'm coming here in hopes for a little pep talk/guidance. I have a year and a half left before I graduate with my undergrad Bachelor's in Animal Science. And I have NO IDEA what I want to do when I graduate!!! I have officially started to panic and freak out a little (it probably...

I recently bought a new cutting saddle, & the saddle pad I use does not work with the saddle. My mare always has dry spots over the middle portion on both sides of her back & on her withers, where the bars of the saddle would sit I am guessing. Does anyone have any saddle pad suggestions? Thanks!

I showed a steer in the Catch-A-Calf program. I ended up placing 5th overall out of 37. A big surprise for me. I was super excited and proud as heck of my steer. Good luck to any one else that is still left to show. I'm hoping on going back up tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to go check...

I feel a little on the dumb side since I have no idea how to figure this out. Anyway, I need to figure this out for my record book. My steer weighed 674 lbs when I got him and his total beginning value was $761.62. If anyone could please help me figure out his beginning CTW value, I'd really...

Ok. We weighed my steer that isn't eating very good today. He weighed about 950. Last time we weighed him was July 28th. He weighed 925. So he is roughly gaining a pound a day, which isn't good at all. That being said, State Fair is out. But the NILE show in Billings is in October. He needs to...

I'm just curious and I'm kinda doubting I'll get much response but... I have a 12 year old Tri-colored Dun Quarter HorseXMorgan mare. I've had her since she was five and basically trained her myself. Before I bought her, she was used as a heeling horse. I've been using her in 4-H and was using...

I purchased a nice blue roan April steer at the Arizonal Nationals held in December. He weighed about 650 in late-January at our county weigh-in. He is under coolers and fans all day. The feed he is on right now is Show Chow Finishing Touch. He gets about 6 pounds of this twice a day with...

This year, I'm gonna try to talk my dad into building a cool room for the steers, as long as I help and pay for most of it. We had a 3 stall lean-to that is made out of cement slabs. The roof is metal or tin. We are probably just gonna totally enclose one and somehow insulate the walls then...

Who all here rinses their calves during winter? Kurt Stierwalt has said to rinse them once a day during the winter months? Any opinions?

Anybody headin down there in December? ...And showing prospect steer calves?

Does anybody know by any chance when entries are due for Montana, Arizona, and Denver? I know Montana is in October and Arizona is in December and Denver is in January...just want to be sure when the entry date is. Thanks.

I have heard from some places that there are cattle that get placed lower due to brands. Is this a serious issue? Since we get our calves out of our family herd, they are branded just like the rest of them.

Ok. So, whoo hoo, I really felt like going riding yesterday. So I grabbed a hackamore out of the shed and tossed it on my 4 y/o, me being too lazy to throw a saddle on. Jumped on her and went riding out in the back country for about 2 hours. Needless to say, I'm soar. But it was SO fun. Feels so...

County Fair just ended for us which means that we'll get more calves about mid-October. A question I have is how do you get a calf to get rid of all of it's baby hair and grow new hair by show time? If our county fair is in the beginning of August, when should the calf have lost all of it's...

Ok. Right now, I am debating on whether I should show a breeding heifer next year. What do you look for? It is basically all the same as a steer except you want her to have more feminine features? -Angus Girl

Whoo Hoo! Sale was yesterday which means no more steers. :D I took two steers and two lambs to the fair. I took Reserve Champion with one lamb in his class. He weighed in at 128. Went in for the grand drive but the judge said he lost a lot of power in his back end so we didn't win but it was...

I just got my 9 y/o running real nice through the poles during practice. Weaves perfect and has nice, tight end poles. Now, whenever we do a run, she turns the 2nd to last pole going down instead of the very last pole. I can feel her slow down and drive her with my feet and voice but she still...

County fair is in 2 weeks and my steer has just decided to quit walking. About a week ago, I started walking him with his head up and setting him up and all that, but now he won't walk at all. I've tried having someone walk behind him to encourage him to go forward but he just balks to the side...

Does anybody know of any decent club calf producers in Colorado? I went on Showsteers.com and emailed most of the people that have emails and have so far gotten one reply. Anybody know of anyone else? That aren't too pricey? But produce decent steers for state fair? -Angus Girl

Anybody know of any jackpots around CO from now until August? Haven't taken the steers to any yet, only the lambs. If anybody knows of any, holler at me. Thanks. -Angus Girl