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<blockquote data-quote="VCC" data-source="post: 645613" data-attributes="member: 6399"><p>This is how our son does it:</p><p></p><p>New calf: After school, rinse once a day, blow out fully, always blowing forward or forward at a 45% angle (depends on animal) comb in Kleen Sheen. Tie with head up for an hour, before kicking him out in the run, make the animal set up.</p><p></p><p>Every other day he pours on a "leave in conditioner" prior to blowing out. Take a 5 gallon bucket, put a quarter sized dollop of cream rinse in the bucket fill with water, dip tail in the bucket then pour bucket and calf from tail to head.</p><p></p><p>Wash with soap once a week, all other steps the same.</p><p></p><p>120 days out from final show, kick calf out for 30 days to shed, pull dead hair out daily, (this years calf just stands there so he works him it out in the pasture without a halter)</p><p></p><p>90 days from fair, son gets up at 5:30; calf is rinsed and blown in the morning, tail head and legs are sprayed with revive, revive is roto-brushed in (at a 45% angle on legs) Sheen is combed in. Calf is tied so he can stand and lay down, fed. He is in a covered, shaded area (sun is blocked out) with 2 turbo fans blowing. (Fans are placed behind him) if it gets over 85F we will turn on the swamp cooler, it gets over 90F we will turn on the misters.</p><p></p><p>When son gets home from school he gets calf up, ties his head up, cleans stall, blows calf out, after an hour he rinses and blows calf out, sprays in Sheen, repeats revive on tail head and legs, ties back up for an hour w/fans. At dusk he combs hair forward, takes calf out sets him up, and then kicks him out in the run and feeds.</p><p></p><p>He will use a cream rinse and vinegar rinse each day in the after noon, we have hard water. Quarter sized dollop of cream rinse, a half cup of vinegar. Dip tail in, pour over animal.</p><p></p><p>He washes with soap once a week, usually on Saturdays.</p><p></p><p>My son shows at a few jackpots but this is his fair project, and before you all think than this is allot of work for a County Fair animal, we have several families that bring 5K to 10K animals to the fair, So he puts in the work so he can compete. </p><p></p><p>If you do not blow the water out, calves can get some nasty cowlicks going, when it is warm you can leave the water on the belly as long as you have fans on them.</p><p></p><p>There are allot of ways to do it< this works for us, plus the calves are real used to being handled this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VCC, post: 645613, member: 6399"] This is how our son does it: New calf: After school, rinse once a day, blow out fully, always blowing forward or forward at a 45% angle (depends on animal) comb in Kleen Sheen. Tie with head up for an hour, before kicking him out in the run, make the animal set up. Every other day he pours on a "leave in conditioner" prior to blowing out. Take a 5 gallon bucket, put a quarter sized dollop of cream rinse in the bucket fill with water, dip tail in the bucket then pour bucket and calf from tail to head. Wash with soap once a week, all other steps the same. 120 days out from final show, kick calf out for 30 days to shed, pull dead hair out daily, (this years calf just stands there so he works him it out in the pasture without a halter) 90 days from fair, son gets up at 5:30; calf is rinsed and blown in the morning, tail head and legs are sprayed with revive, revive is roto-brushed in (at a 45% angle on legs) Sheen is combed in. Calf is tied so he can stand and lay down, fed. He is in a covered, shaded area (sun is blocked out) with 2 turbo fans blowing. (Fans are placed behind him) if it gets over 85F we will turn on the swamp cooler, it gets over 90F we will turn on the misters. When son gets home from school he gets calf up, ties his head up, cleans stall, blows calf out, after an hour he rinses and blows calf out, sprays in Sheen, repeats revive on tail head and legs, ties back up for an hour w/fans. At dusk he combs hair forward, takes calf out sets him up, and then kicks him out in the run and feeds. He will use a cream rinse and vinegar rinse each day in the after noon, we have hard water. Quarter sized dollop of cream rinse, a half cup of vinegar. Dip tail in, pour over animal. He washes with soap once a week, usually on Saturdays. My son shows at a few jackpots but this is his fair project, and before you all think than this is allot of work for a County Fair animal, we have several families that bring 5K to 10K animals to the fair, So he puts in the work so he can compete. If you do not blow the water out, calves can get some nasty cowlicks going, when it is warm you can leave the water on the belly as long as you have fans on them. There are allot of ways to do it< this works for us, plus the calves are real used to being handled this way. [/QUOTE]
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