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High schools do that? I've never heard of such a thing. It sounds like a good thing though!

I'm very disappointed that it passed as well. It's scary to think what the HSUS is plotting for us here in Missouri next! We need to get out and educate the people of St. Louis and Kansas City (and the bootheel apparently) before the HSUS comes up their next big plan!

Top: Abbreviation of Sire's Name Bottom: Calf birth year letter, cow birth year letter, cow family number (this is also their tattoo)

I've tried both ways. I've always had much better luck with just leaving them on.

I'll definitely be voting no on this. If this passes, the HSUS will probably go after the livestock industry too. Think about it: Missouri is the top producer of both purebred dogs AND purebred cattle. Once the HSUS knows that it can get stuff passed here, it will probably keep coming back. I...

I agree with sjcattleco. I originally planned on building one myself but after seeing steel prices, I ended up buying a steel cadillac chute from sullivan's.

I bought one of these when I first started showing cattle and it is still my one and only blower. http://www.jefferslivestock.com/ssc/product.asp?CID=2&mscssid=JAC8LP2NMRR08K13NGEA706T57QBFQA2&pf_id=0028492 It's not the fanciest thing but it gets the job done. The only bad thing about it is...

I only showed a steer one year. He acted goofy the entire week and I was looking forward until the end of the fair to get rid of him. But after I loaded him on the trailer and saw them driving him away with him looking at me with his big ol' eyes, I cried... A lot. But he had a great life. He...

I haven't met anyone from Steerplanet in real life but I have a lot of you added on facebook and enjoy seeing all your updates on your cattle. Maybe if I ever get to go to one of the big shows I'll meet some of you. :)

Here's some of my cow's/heifer's names: Yoko Reba Heidi Nicky Paris - Paris and Nicky were the first heifers I showed as a pair :) Cher Delilah - The song "Hey there, Delilah" by the Plain White T's came on the radio on my way home from buying this heifer Yoshi Ash - Got her on Ash Wednesday...

We used to have a pretty ugly cow and to make it worse she was the cow that would always turn around and run the opposite direction when we would have to move them. She'd have a pretty good looking calf each year but they were even spookier than she was. She had just one horn, a roach back, a...

Just write down the breed of the dam. They're registered as American Simgenetics cattle.

Carcass steers and market steers are different at the show I go to. The market steer show is for people in 4-H and FFA under 21 years old and are judged based on their looks and are sold later in the week based on their placing. The only way their carcass will effect you at all is if the buyer...

Know about carcass traits.

I love watching baby calves playing-- running around together with their tails in the air and kicking up their heals. And just working with my show calves.

Make sure you attend a 3 day one instead of a 2 day one. It takes a long time to get good. They had one here a few weeks ago and only one guy there got to were he could get it every time. I plan on attending another one this fall so I can actually get the hang of it because I REALLY want some...

At our fair they have a dress code for FFA in the fair book. It says FFA members have to wear a t-shirt with "FFA" on it or the official FFA overalls. They aren't followed though, a lot of the kids wear other clothing that have nothing to do with FFA.

We've been missing all the rain here in SE Missouri. It sprinkled a little for about 5 minutes today but it stopped. It's been thundering and the weatherman's been calling for the past week but so far nothing.

Our ultra hairy ex-show heifers never breed back as fast as their slicker herd mates. The humidity really seems to get to them in the summer too. Seems like the fit cows breed back faster than the really fat ones too in my experience.

We cut the tags out of our calves ears before they're shown. But we tag ours in the left ear (standing beside them) anyway though.