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<blockquote data-quote="mlazyj" data-source="post: 875761" data-attributes="member: 17406"><p>Our county fair had 22 steers this year . Everyone shows together (4-H/FFA) . The market steer class is just that blacks ,whites,buckskins,reds all show together , they are all going on the rail together . I don't think a market steer class should be segragated by breed , they sure aren't in the feedlot , finished is finished . It's not uncommon for a lower placing animal to place higher than the grand champion . A relative's ranch buys the animal , they write the purchase off and the kid goes to college . We continue to have good support , thanks to good grain prices , good cattle market and oil and gas drilling . I'am a commercial man , I have little to no use for show cattle , they do not represent the beef industry that the comsumer needs to be educating , but they are at the county/state fairs that the comsumers are at . They are there poodles of the cattle industry that do nothing to enhance individual breeds . With my kids we set goals before the fair . Get the calves halter broke before the snow flies ,continue to work them as soon as we can in the spring , make weight ,get them shown , get them sold , nobody gets hurt and have a good time . This past year was a train wreck . It started snowing the 16th of november and we had it through april . the calves barely got worked . When it thawed we had mud and flooding for a month , we didn't have enough pens to get the steers and replacement heifers and late calvers sepperated , so they didn't get on finisher untill late . The calves just made weight but weren't finished . We had a talk and decided we wouldn't take sub par animals . We kept them a couple of months longer and sold them to a local packer for market on the rail . The kids got checks for a little over 1200 dollars . Life lesson , best layed plans sometime just don't work . I don't know how many calves you had in each class , but it hardly excuses a judge for not talking a little bit with each kid . I like Gelveih cattle , the real only downer I see in them is they tend not to be clean in the neck and tend to pack some extra leather there . The show cattle world is one I don't get , the mentality is so far removed from ranching I probably never will , that became evident when I tried surfing around steerplanet.com . and the biggest concern was they couldn't make enough hair , who eats hair?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mlazyj, post: 875761, member: 17406"] Our county fair had 22 steers this year . Everyone shows together (4-H/FFA) . The market steer class is just that blacks ,whites,buckskins,reds all show together , they are all going on the rail together . I don't think a market steer class should be segragated by breed , they sure aren't in the feedlot , finished is finished . It's not uncommon for a lower placing animal to place higher than the grand champion . A relative's ranch buys the animal , they write the purchase off and the kid goes to college . We continue to have good support , thanks to good grain prices , good cattle market and oil and gas drilling . I'am a commercial man , I have little to no use for show cattle , they do not represent the beef industry that the comsumer needs to be educating , but they are at the county/state fairs that the comsumers are at . They are there poodles of the cattle industry that do nothing to enhance individual breeds . With my kids we set goals before the fair . Get the calves halter broke before the snow flies ,continue to work them as soon as we can in the spring , make weight ,get them shown , get them sold , nobody gets hurt and have a good time . This past year was a train wreck . It started snowing the 16th of november and we had it through april . the calves barely got worked . When it thawed we had mud and flooding for a month , we didn't have enough pens to get the steers and replacement heifers and late calvers sepperated , so they didn't get on finisher untill late . The calves just made weight but weren't finished . We had a talk and decided we wouldn't take sub par animals . We kept them a couple of months longer and sold them to a local packer for market on the rail . The kids got checks for a little over 1200 dollars . Life lesson , best layed plans sometime just don't work . I don't know how many calves you had in each class , but it hardly excuses a judge for not talking a little bit with each kid . I like Gelveih cattle , the real only downer I see in them is they tend not to be clean in the neck and tend to pack some extra leather there . The show cattle world is one I don't get , the mentality is so far removed from ranching I probably never will , that became evident when I tried surfing around steerplanet.com . and the biggest concern was they couldn't make enough hair , who eats hair? [/QUOTE]
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