Posted by showsteer_cowgirl on 10/31/2008, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: market heifer shows at county fairs"
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In our family, we take the same cattle to state fair. It is very unlikely that our cattle will win at state fair because it is more than a month earlier than our county fair, and our market animals are usually not finished by the time the state fair roles around. At our fair, all Grand and Reserve Grand Champions must go to slaughter (this is overalls, not divisions). The only exception to that rule is the dairy feeders or beef feeders, because that is not the "end of the project". The Grand and Reserve Grand animals must go to a state-licensed facilty in our area to get the appropriate testing done.
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: What do you guys take to state fair then? Are
: all of the good cattle taken to slaughter
: after the county fairs?
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: --Previous Message--
: I live in Clinton County (Wilmington, Oh)
: and
: my neice had Champion Market Heifer and went
: on to win Grand Champion Overall Market
: Beef. Not sure if you realize it or not,
: but your brother and my neice are the first
: EVER to win Grand and Reserve Grand Overall
: with a market heifer at ANY show in Ohio. I
: am writing a article about it for the
: Cattlemen's association magazine and would
: like to include you guys. Please email me
: at chris@amrecords.net so i can get your
: name, county, etc.
:
: Even though we were sad to see her go, we
: knew that the Grand and Reserve Grand
: Champion animals are required to go to
: slaughter. That is a rule for all county
: fairs in Ohio and has been for over 10 years
: now. Plus, market heifers are being shown
: as market heifers for a reason....they are
: usually heavier muscled, for a lack of a
: better term, more masculine (steer look)
: than what you look for in a female to be
: kept for breeding. Too much muscle leads to
: calving problems.
:
: You said yourself, you showed her as a
: market heifer because you didn't think she
: would do as well in the breeding class and
: that she had a market heifer look to her.
: Thats because she was a market heifer. So
: many people that take these market heifers
: back home and try to breek them end up with
: calving problems.
:
: As much as it may suck, I'm sorry to say
: that no matter how many letters you write or
: to who, that rule will never be changed.
: The champions have to go to slaughter
: because in addition to the urine tests, they
: inspect the carcasses for evidence of
: tampering.
:
: Lifting that rule would make very easy for
: someone to do "some work" on an
: animal and buy it back through the sale
: making sure the animal doesn't go to
: slaughter to insure not getting caught.
:
: Later!
:
: --Previous Message--
: Our county fair just ended yesterday. We had
: Champion Market Heifer and she then went on
: to win Reserve Grand Champion Market Beef.
: The sad thing is we wanted to bring her home
: to breed and put her out in the herd but as
: a state rule, the Grand/Reserve Grand have
: to go to slaughter . Trust me, even though
: she was my brother's heifer, I'm too old to
: show, it was a sad day . Now, what I want to
: know is, first of all, what does everyone
: else's county fair do with the Grand and
: Reserve Grand market animals? Also, does
: anyone know who I could write to in the
: State to maybe get this rule changed? I live
: in Ohio. Thanks so much!
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