Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Show Steer Prospect
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="MoGal" data-source="post: 589977" data-attributes="member: 1346"><p>We have a Galloway bull, but in all honesty he's not that hairy. Are you by chance in Canada? or perhaps somewhere much colder than southeast missouri at any rate.</p><p></p><p>Our bull is also solid black and throws black calves and a few of the calves have "nappy" hair as I'd call it because its a little thicker, drier texture, however we don't have any galloway cows so he's been used on crossbreds (charolais, angus, holstein, red poll crosses).</p><p></p><p>Okay, enough of my rambling.... what are your objectives? Is this your first year of showing? Are you wanting to get your feet wet in the show ring ......... or are you going to be angry if you don't place in the top three??? </p><p>What do your parents say about you wanting to show one of them and what I mean here is do they know you have an interest in showing one of these calves? Are there other Galloway breeders near you that show?? Is your calf going to be odd man out because no one else has shown galloways in your area? ( I don't mean it unkindly but there are some around here that want to raise longhorns and then complain because they only bring 20 cents a lb when they sell em, good grief this is a beef state, what do they expect.)</p><p></p><p>You do realize that you will have to feed grain in order to get the size, weight and bloom on the animal so that he will show his best. Your post says that you don't plan on feeding a lot of grain and I don't think anybody that shows would tell you that they get there without it.</p><p></p><p>If you are in 4H or FFA, do you have a show leader or whatever they call them that will give you advice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoGal, post: 589977, member: 1346"] We have a Galloway bull, but in all honesty he's not that hairy. Are you by chance in Canada? or perhaps somewhere much colder than southeast missouri at any rate. Our bull is also solid black and throws black calves and a few of the calves have "nappy" hair as I'd call it because its a little thicker, drier texture, however we don't have any galloway cows so he's been used on crossbreds (charolais, angus, holstein, red poll crosses). Okay, enough of my rambling.... what are your objectives? Is this your first year of showing? Are you wanting to get your feet wet in the show ring ......... or are you going to be angry if you don't place in the top three??? What do your parents say about you wanting to show one of them and what I mean here is do they know you have an interest in showing one of these calves? Are there other Galloway breeders near you that show?? Is your calf going to be odd man out because no one else has shown galloways in your area? ( I don't mean it unkindly but there are some around here that want to raise longhorns and then complain because they only bring 20 cents a lb when they sell em, good grief this is a beef state, what do they expect.) You do realize that you will have to feed grain in order to get the size, weight and bloom on the animal so that he will show his best. Your post says that you don't plan on feeding a lot of grain and I don't think anybody that shows would tell you that they get there without it. If you are in 4H or FFA, do you have a show leader or whatever they call them that will give you advice? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Show Steer Prospect
Top