Eye Candy Steers

DEA · Jan 25, 2013

Just curious for those who have had eye candy steers how do they finish out? We have a real cool looking eye candy steer, loads of hair, big topped and good depth, walks real well, etc., etc., but we have heard (at times) they really start to have sputter at the 1200 to 1250 range? Anyone have any experience with this or not? We want to get him to 1325 or so by target show in July. He currently weighs 850 to 875. Also, How well do they keep there hair in the summer? We don't have a cooler, but we have what seems like a million fans (HAHA) blowing all the time. Thank you for your reponses.

dn91 · Jan 25, 2013

I don't know about the steers but I had an Eye Candy heifer last year that finished out almost too early, we didn't have to feed her to much and for hair we don't have a cooler either and with rinsing her about two or three times a day she had more hair than anything else I saw in the summer time, hope that helps!

Sambosu · Jan 25, 2013

This is our second year in a row to feed out an Eye Candy Steer. When both hit 1200lbs or so, they really slowed down. The one we have now weighed 1220 on 23rd of November and now weighs 1280. Recently, I found something he likes a lot, some 7th cutting bales of alfalfa. It is full of leaves and tested very high. Now that he is eating the hay, he is eating a little more grain then he was the last month or so. He has one more rib to cover before he is totally finished. Last year's steer did almost the same thing. Took forever to finally get him finished for OYE. I sure love the hair on these Eye Candy steers and their soundness but both seemed to be lacking some volume at the end because of their bad eating habit.s

boiler · Jan 25, 2013

I would have to agree with the above post

HAB · Jan 25, 2013

Sambosu said:
This is our second year in a row to feed out an Eye Candy Steer. When both hit 1200lbs or so, they really slowed down. The one we have now weighed 1220 on 23rd of November and now weighs 1280. Recently, I found something he likes a lot, some 7th cutting bales of alfalfa. It is full of leaves and tested very high. Now that he is eating the hay, he is eating a little more grain then he was the last month or so. He has one more rib to cover before he is totally finished. Last year's steer did almost the same thing. Took forever to finally get him finished for OYE. I sure love the hair on these Eye Candy steers and their soundness but both seemed to be lacking some volume at the end because of their bad eating habit.s

The feedlots would love them, less time on feed. They are finished and will grade out great, just not carry the extra "show" fat. IMO

okiegirl · Jan 25, 2013

We had an Eye Candy steer last year. He was easy feeding until the end, then we couldn't get him to eat anything. He just picked. We loved him, great disposition, awesome hair, and he won his class at Tulsa.

DakotaCow · Jan 25, 2013

They are pretty good stock, just seem the type of cattle that can't be fed, they need to be managed. He does seem to work better on longer fronted larger framed more powerful cows, actually a lot like monopoly.

Apple Ranch · Jan 28, 2013

We had an Eye Candy steer last year. He was very long and didn't really come on until our fair. He finished at 1350 but not an easy feeder IMO. He did carcass out real well and was chose as grand champ. He did seem to slow down once the warm weather hit. We do not have a cooler either but we did rinse and blow him out twice a day. We rinsed him for at least 20 minutes at a time. He was under fans and inside all day. He kept all of his hair. Good Luck.