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<blockquote data-quote="IA Show Mom" data-source="post: 657721" data-attributes="member: 12037"><p>We have a <u><strong>very strict </strong></u>schedule of hair care especially with the calves in the cooler for summer.</p><p></p><p>We get up at 4:00 am to get the calves into the show barn and fitting room before the sun comes up. Our calves may only see 1 to 2 hours of day light a day in the summer. We bring them in and start to rinse the whole calf throughly then when the calf if cooled down we rinse them with freezer water. We have two chest freezers in our fitting room that we fill with water and then use a sump pump to pump the water from the freezer. We rinse the calves on their back, between their back legs, behind their front legs (arm pits), neck and brisket till the calf humps their back. We can usually do 2 to 3 head per freezer. Then we mist the calves with Double Dip and brush them. We blow their bodies completly dry so we don't add extra mositure in the cooler. We turn a butt fan on the calves while they are standing in the chute to help keep them cool and we then use the roto brush on their legs and butt. We then mist the calf with 90% Kleen Sheen and 10% Rag Oil and blow that in and blow the leg hair. We put the calves in the cooler with their morning feed. Each calf also has its own butt fan that blows on their legs when they stand or directly on their back when they lay down. We leave the lights out in the cooler and have the temp set at 50 degrees.</p><p></p><p>At noon the kids go in the cooler and get the calves up and tie them so they stand for 2 - 3 hours. They put crushed ice on their backs and take the roto brush and roto brush their leg hair and any hair that has gotten flattened while they were laying down. We use some liniment at noon to help give the hide a chill. </p><p></p><p>About 6 pm we start to take the calves out of the cooler and we again repeat the same steps as the morning but we use straight Kleen Sheen don't want to add anything heavy to the hair when they go outside at night. Once or twice a week we will soap them with Clear Choice and then apply human conditioner. When we do this we also pour a bucket of water with about a 1/4 - 1/2 a cup of clear vinegar mixed in it over the calves backs. Soap is a base and vinegar is an acid so the vinegar helps to neutralize any soap that might be left in the hair. We blow them completely dry again at night because if they are wet and it is humid they will not dry and it seems that the moisture traps the heat in their coats and they just keep sweating and get really hot. We have some of those 4 foot dairy barn fans that we have outside of the cattle pens to help move the air at night. </p><p></p><p>We get the calves turned out about any where from 9 - 11 pm depending on how hot it is outside. We start Memorial Day weekend and do it every day until the Iowa State Fair 2nd week in August.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IA Show Mom, post: 657721, member: 12037"] We have a [u][b]very strict [/b][/u]schedule of hair care especially with the calves in the cooler for summer. We get up at 4:00 am to get the calves into the show barn and fitting room before the sun comes up. Our calves may only see 1 to 2 hours of day light a day in the summer. We bring them in and start to rinse the whole calf throughly then when the calf if cooled down we rinse them with freezer water. We have two chest freezers in our fitting room that we fill with water and then use a sump pump to pump the water from the freezer. We rinse the calves on their back, between their back legs, behind their front legs (arm pits), neck and brisket till the calf humps their back. We can usually do 2 to 3 head per freezer. Then we mist the calves with Double Dip and brush them. We blow their bodies completly dry so we don't add extra mositure in the cooler. We turn a butt fan on the calves while they are standing in the chute to help keep them cool and we then use the roto brush on their legs and butt. We then mist the calf with 90% Kleen Sheen and 10% Rag Oil and blow that in and blow the leg hair. We put the calves in the cooler with their morning feed. Each calf also has its own butt fan that blows on their legs when they stand or directly on their back when they lay down. We leave the lights out in the cooler and have the temp set at 50 degrees. At noon the kids go in the cooler and get the calves up and tie them so they stand for 2 - 3 hours. They put crushed ice on their backs and take the roto brush and roto brush their leg hair and any hair that has gotten flattened while they were laying down. We use some liniment at noon to help give the hide a chill. About 6 pm we start to take the calves out of the cooler and we again repeat the same steps as the morning but we use straight Kleen Sheen don't want to add anything heavy to the hair when they go outside at night. Once or twice a week we will soap them with Clear Choice and then apply human conditioner. When we do this we also pour a bucket of water with about a 1/4 - 1/2 a cup of clear vinegar mixed in it over the calves backs. Soap is a base and vinegar is an acid so the vinegar helps to neutralize any soap that might be left in the hair. We blow them completely dry again at night because if they are wet and it is humid they will not dry and it seems that the moisture traps the heat in their coats and they just keep sweating and get really hot. We have some of those 4 foot dairy barn fans that we have outside of the cattle pens to help move the air at night. We get the calves turned out about any where from 9 - 11 pm depending on how hot it is outside. We start Memorial Day weekend and do it every day until the Iowa State Fair 2nd week in August. [/QUOTE]
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