The craziest thing you have seen at a cattle show

[Earthmover]

Deputy sherrifs coming into the show and asking who was missing a steer, seems one had gotten loose and was hit on a state route in front of the fairgrounds the night before. Last I heard no one claimed the steer.

 

[fed_champions]

At the  show barn one day, a kid in the ag chapter had a full throttle that was an absolute nut. We were up at the barn during shop class, he pulled the calf out of the pen, no sooner than he walked into the alley the steer flipped a lid. He kicked him four times, and within a matter of two seconds the calf had spun him into a front flip and he landed on his back. The steer ran past the other kids and continued through town, by the time we caught up to him in our trucks, he was on the highway, about to reach a major intersection, when my friend slid in front of him, by this time, the calf was completely freaked, plowing head first into the drivers door, breaking his neck in the process. He died right there on the highway, it caused quite a scene.

 

[JY]

At Denver in the early 80's, they had the old two story cattle barn with a loading dock at the back, while unloading a semi a gert heifer got loose, ran up the stairs and jumped off the second story and landed on top of a guy trimming a simi heifer in a chute. I believe the guy's name was Johnny Hook.Luckily it did not hurt anything except the chute if I remember right.

 

[shwgrl]

This year at the Wisconsin State Fair, we were on the main aisle with kids running up and down it like mad, and animals in and out on the way to the wash racks and show ring.  My dad was just about to clean up a mess a heifer had left behind, when along came this little 4 or so year old girl runnning to pet a 'cow' and oops! She got to the manure before my dad did and was covered head to toe!  Her mom quickly scooped her up drug her to the nearest wash rack.  The dad came along a moment later and said, "Damn cows."  He some how found a way to blame the cows!

 

[aj]

At one show my wife was at a Bull got spooked and ran between to parked pickups.He tore the mirror off our pickup and kinda caved in part of the side. ;D

 

[SeannyT]

One of the best stories I've heard happened at the Toronto Royal, well before I was born.  People were sitting inside when a guy holding a rope walked in the doors. Following him was another guy, and another, and finally about ten guys all together on the same rope, but no one could see what was on the end. Finally after some more length of the rope a giant Holstein bull appeared, not being dragged, just walking. They guys after said it was "just in case." Not often you see a 30ft rope and 10 guys leading a bull in from tieouts!

 

[FutureBreeder2013]

Free haircuts (more like buzz cuts) by a clipping chute

 

[Bradenh]

some of the 'Pretty' people in Texas. No Names but the texas folks will agree with me  (lol) its the funniest and most bizzare thing ever. i would describe in detail but i thank its best i dont.

 

[bart]

show stopper we know who u are talking about man! oh wow i laugh at those folks all the time

 

[FutureBreeder2013]

some of the 'Pretty' people in Texas. No Names but the texas folks will agree with me  (lol) its the funniest and most bizzare thing ever. i would describe in detail but i thank its best i dont.

Could you clarify for the people up north  please.

 

[fed_champions]

Hahaha, u would never believe theyve ever been in a barn. But just a little more info. his mom owns and runs the showbox magazine

 

[aj]

Probably 20 years ago as a spectatator I heard a aresol can explode. They were heating glue or spray of some kind up in Denver. It sounded like a bomb going off. It was an Alden. It stunned him but he was ok. I believe a paramedic checked him out.

 

[Bradenh]

some of the 'Pretty' people in Texas. No Names but the texas folks will agree with me  (lol) its the funniest and most bizzare thing ever. i would describe in detail but i thank its best i dont.

Could you clarify for the people up north  please.

fed champions Knows it lol and this guy and his buddies grew up in a show barn. future breeder get on facebook and friend S.b cattle. he will accept anybody. has 3000 friends and its a blast to read what he says

 

[SongBird1232]

Heres a few
I was walking my heifer calf to the washrack and this mother with a stroller comes right up behind her and my calf had never seen a stroller and freaks. She ended up getting away from me and ran into the cornfield. I got everyone i knew to run through the field and look. We ended up getting a helicopter to look for her a day and a half later. We found her and my cousin who got to ride in the helicopter got dropped off in the parking lot!
~Some kid fell asleep after the show and some kids took tail adhesve and black spray paint and spiked the kids blonde hair. It was funny when he woke up.
~Then every year i get these goofy questions from people who think my cattle are horses or moose (idk..?) I've been asked when i milk them and if i had to teach them to lie down and if i ride them around the showring. But one kid asked me if my steer bit. Jokingly i said yea and held up my hand bending down my finger which had a band-aid on it, but the kid didn't realize i was joking and ran off, when he walked next to the other calves waiting to show he would hide his hands.

 

[smithdrew11]

iwas at the oklahoma youth expo and they had the steer show going on in one half of the arena and the lamb show in the other seperated by a rope. one steer got loose and jumped the rope and all the lambs got loose. it was crazy

 

[yuppiecowboy]

Steer so pumped full of swelling agents that he fell over with a heart attack on the final drive at louisville twenty plus years ago. Supposedly died but rumor has it he turned up later and won a big deal out west. Arizona maybe.

 

[afhm]

Not so much crazy as funnt. Know how when a ringman catches a loose calf the 1st thing they do is yank down on the chain several times attempting to make the calf listen when in fact they're just ticking it off even more.  Well in Houston a few years ago during the steer show a prominent judge from Texas A&M who just happens to be in charge of the steer show did just that and the steer dumped him in the middle of the show ring in front of thousands and how ever many more that were on the net watching.  He went one way his hat another and the calf in a 3rd direction.  Needless to say with his hurt pride and all he didn't bother catching anymore loose steers the rest of the week.

Didn't a steer show up to Denver in  a dump truck one year?  If I heard right he won too.

I've seen parents fight over the placing of a class before and not over who won but who should have been last or next to last.

Judges getting attack for the way they judged, having show sticks thrown at them from across the ring.

How about a leaf blower being used to blow cattle as well as a shop vac.

 

[ba]

This come from home. Brian's first tear he a Senior yearling that was puppy dog broke in for the Champion drive
she tired of standing and just going through the routine. Well she decided to kick her heels up got loose and
blind sided the judge rolling him a couple pf times.I looked at my wife and said that took us out of the running.

 

[farwest]

Letting the pigs out the bucking chute gates for the swine show into the arena is a treat to see at our fair. Also saw someone show up with a leaf blower n scissors for blower n clippers.  Lol. Cattle on 30 ft ropes a common occurance at our calf show.

 

[fbrmom]

About 10 yrs ago at our little 4-h show, a steer got loose going to the wash rack, jumped the wash rack and took off up toward the horseshow ring.  A girl jumped on her horse and took off after it.  She was able to slide off her horse and catch it by the halter.  The owner came running up to it and it yanked back stepped on her foot and took off again, dragging her.  She finally let go, jumped back on the horse and took off after it again.  She cornered it in a creek bed, the fair committee called the local vet for a tranquilizer gun, while they waited for the tranq. gun the steer got his second wind, took off through about 6 guys jumped an embankment and ran down a major highways, 4 people on horses were able to chase him into a trucking company with a surrounding fence where they were finally able to tranq. him.  The show committee repremanded the girl for chasing the steer with her horse and she ended up in the e.r. with bruised ribs and heat exhaustion from being drug by the calf.  We later found out that the steer had busted the kid who owned it up earlier in the yr. and had broken some of his ribs.  They hauled the steer straight back to the farm where they later butchered.  The vet said they put enough tranq in it to down an elephant.