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    cooling off calf

    thanks this is my pride and joy calf, i wish this wasnt my last year showing at my county show b/c i'm actually gettin into the showing now not just the money. Ya well most in Florida have a hard time keeping hair on calves during summer but it seems to me my calves hair grow better in summer...
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    cooling off calf

    heres a picture of my calf i just pulled out of the chute, not the best photo.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    HERES SOME PICTURES I TOOK TONITE!!  Not the best in the world but u sure can tell hes still growing, hes about to hit anthor growth spurt. what does everybody think?? i figured out y he was soo gangly looking was b/c he was in a growth spurt, now he muscled back out and is about to grow up again.
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    cooling off calf

    ya if its not pouring down rain its really hot,so i have to turn on misters when not raining and keep off when it is going to ran. when my misters are on they are set to a timer also, i went to walmart and they have a line of 6 and 12 misters for sale and they work really really good.
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    cooling off calf

    Nice calf!! ya u sound like me, nobody can belive how much hair my calves during the summer time, sometimes its more than winter time!! I have a shorty that came in 4rm mississippi and he had only lost a little bit of his hair the whole time hes been here (FL) and i also have a little black...
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    the show that my black steer is going to is beg. of march.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    yes this is a Florida born calf. He actually is in good weight (soo many people are starving there calves to make weight right now and stunting there growth and then at the end they grow like a weed), he is a good looking calf i just need height on him b/c i think it might hurt him in the long...
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    yes it is a headache but they want all calves to be heavy enough at the end to be good eating, they just moved up the bottom weight last year, to make sure calves would have some finsh on them.
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    Halter Help

    ok, this should work, get a horse halter the size of her head and put it on her and tie her up with a lead rope.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    yes he's small he's being held back also tho, he cant be over 800lbs by sept.8th and i'm allready going to have to take him off feed and water to make a decent weight for the final show, hes a small framed calf and will only mature at 1100-1200lbs if lucky. i have a aug. steer and he weights...
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    This calf HAS NOT been pushed or anything we are trying to make a good weight for the sept. weightin as from then to the final he has to gain 2lbs a day and we are guesing hes going to finsh out pretty small, some say 1100lbs and others say 1200-1250lbs. what minerals and vitamins does he need...
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    Georgia Jr. Beef Furturity

    They girl that went up from my area got a 1st with her heifer and 3rd with her steer.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    By march he might have his feet trimmed 3 times.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    The stuff were feeding is like a grower rotation. I think hes going to be an easy one to finsh.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    ok, I can only have him up to 800lbs (fair rules) by sept.8 and then after that weight in he has to gain 2lbs a day till fair to meet our required weight. Right now on all the oats and hardly no feed hes gaining 2.5lbs a day.Every one keeps telling me we need to grow him, and they keep saying...
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    ok i need him to grow taller not to grow fat, i have till march to get him 1000-1200lbs it depends on what he weights in at in sept.
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    ok he was born the end of sept. and he weights 623lbs, there is no holding necessary he has been on feed since april. What i call feed is a mixture that one of the local showman made up> 11-12 steers grand 1 reserve and same with pigs. i'll have to look whenever i get home to see what the %...
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    HELP!! Growing steer

    :( i am having a problem with keeping fat off of him and him growing taller, he seemd to grow then go wide and then i think he sorta stoped and now i think he just grew a little bit taller but not sure.I did have him 1/2 feed 1/2 oats and also gets calf mana and beet pulp. Well since i put him...
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    Georgia Junior Beef Futurity

    GOOD LUCK!! There is a few kids from Plant City and Durant high schools up there!The heifers should end up pretty good and we will see about the steers, (Maine anjous i think) Keep this updated so i know how all of the local kids do!!!
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    Help, need 45lbs on steer in 12 days!!!

    whatever he'll eat more of feed him more of!! If he likes feed fed him more, of he likes corn add more,i would say take him off hay and give him more beet pulp. (not sure if it will help but, i feed dry beet pulp so it seems that they will drink more water), get crushed trace mineral and start...
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