Slick cattle and haired cattle pix

LLBUX · Mar 18, 2016

I just finished watching the Chi steer show at Houston and found it quite interesting.

In my untrained eye toward slick cattle, the winning steers seemed to be much more expressively muscled and leaner
than the haired steers I have seen win. At least one class winner appeared to have a pronounced crest, as if he had been cut late.

I am in no way disrespecting any judges or exhibitors, I find these slick cattle to be refreshing to look at.
You see the actual animal, rather than an animal sculpted to fit a judge's preferences.

I would appreciate if folks would post pix of their animal fitted with hair and then slicked so I can learn more about what to look for.

rrblack78 · Mar 18, 2016

The best 2 I could find close together in weight. Three weeks apart. Last haired jackpot the first of February and the day he made the sale in San Antonio 3 weeks later.

blackdirt cowboy · Mar 18, 2016

Here is our calf that got sifted at Ft Worth. He then went on to place 2nd in the heavy weight Chianina class at Houston.

simba · Mar 19, 2016

Good post, thanks to rrblack78 and blackdirt cowboy for the photos so far. I'm also interested to see the slick and haired pictures because we don't have slick shows in Canada so it's not something I'm familar with either.

LLBUX · Mar 21, 2016

Thanks for the pictures/

The apricot steer is a muscled beast! I can see how he would shine as a slick steer. It shows off his muscling.

How did the smoke steer get sifted? He looks good with hair or without hair.

Congrats to both families.

Just for grins, I am thinking about slicking a steer for our July county fair here in ILL. We have a half Angus/half Beltie steer. He is fairly well muscled, and will have poor hair despite his Beltie sire. He is a smoke colored steer you would never guess had Beltie blood. Momma has thin, short and fine hair, almost like a rat tail.

I am hoping to confuse the judge a little and have some fun along the way.

blackdirt cowboy · Mar 21, 2016

Smoke steer got sifted in Ft Worth because the weight break wasn't kind to us. The class I was trying to avoid broke lighter than it did in the past ten years. He was in a class with steers that out weighed him by 150 pounds.