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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 771701" data-attributes="member: 7275"><p>Iowa Hawkeyes asked about cooling rooms, not wether we work hair and shape a calf or not. If you're going to show your cattle at a fair and they allow hair, then you are a brain dead fool if you you do not work hair also. It is a competition for who has the best looking calf. If the rules allow hair then we use it to our advantage. So when in Rome...However, I do have a not so good opinion regarding cool rooms. They pose health hazards to your cattle. 1. The cooling unit can go out while you are away. being that these rooms are designed to be air tight guess what, you can kill your entire string in one day. 2. I have seen cattle in Texas be put into these rooms on 100 degree days. Usually temps inside are kept aroud 60. They are borought in before dawn, let out after dark. This supposedly facilitates the winter effect of a shorter day thereby causing melatonin to be released. hopefully generating the thicker longer hair. When you let these cattle out at night with the that hair coat they remain hot. I believe that many of these calves stay on antibiotics to keep them from getting sick during the summer. I personall believe that there is to much stress placed on a calf that goes in and out of cool rooms. 3. The time requirements for using the cool room effectivley. 4. The expense of a properley built one. I prefer to use multuple fans, rinse and brush daily and keep my cattle on a well balanced feed program that includes vitamans, minerals and other additives that promote hair growth. On another note for thoseof you who frown on the show ring, I do think that for adults showing is a waist of time energy and money it should be a thing of the past since we have so many forms of media in which we can show our cattle to others right from our own place. But for the youth, I still think it is a valuable tool to teach them many life lessons. Not just about winning but about caring for cattle, learning to evaluate and working hard. I know. I have two boys that were'nt such big winners in the ring. But are big winners in life due in part to their 4-H and FFA experiences. MO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 771701, member: 7275"] Iowa Hawkeyes asked about cooling rooms, not wether we work hair and shape a calf or not. If you're going to show your cattle at a fair and they allow hair, then you are a brain dead fool if you you do not work hair also. It is a competition for who has the best looking calf. If the rules allow hair then we use it to our advantage. So when in Rome...However, I do have a not so good opinion regarding cool rooms. They pose health hazards to your cattle. 1. The cooling unit can go out while you are away. being that these rooms are designed to be air tight guess what, you can kill your entire string in one day. 2. I have seen cattle in Texas be put into these rooms on 100 degree days. Usually temps inside are kept aroud 60. They are borought in before dawn, let out after dark. This supposedly facilitates the winter effect of a shorter day thereby causing melatonin to be released. hopefully generating the thicker longer hair. When you let these cattle out at night with the that hair coat they remain hot. I believe that many of these calves stay on antibiotics to keep them from getting sick during the summer. I personall believe that there is to much stress placed on a calf that goes in and out of cool rooms. 3. The time requirements for using the cool room effectivley. 4. The expense of a properley built one. I prefer to use multuple fans, rinse and brush daily and keep my cattle on a well balanced feed program that includes vitamans, minerals and other additives that promote hair growth. On another note for thoseof you who frown on the show ring, I do think that for adults showing is a waist of time energy and money it should be a thing of the past since we have so many forms of media in which we can show our cattle to others right from our own place. But for the youth, I still think it is a valuable tool to teach them many life lessons. Not just about winning but about caring for cattle, learning to evaluate and working hard. I know. I have two boys that were'nt such big winners in the ring. But are big winners in life due in part to their 4-H and FFA experiences. MO [/QUOTE]
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