This project can be an unforgettable learning experience. You will do many things to help you undergo personal growth. You will also learn skills that will help you become a more responsible books. You will receive only one reference guide person. Skills you learn from raising a steer will for your entire 4-H career, so take care of it!
It be valuable in the future, and will carry over into other aspects of your life as a 4-H'er. We hope you will have fun, too. This book will teach you most of the things you need to know to raise a 4-H market steer. There are skills and information to learn and activities to do. Some of the activities everyone should do and others you may choose to do. You should complete six activities per year. Twelve activities are required and should be completed in the first two years of the project.
After the first two years, six activities should be selected from either the suggested activities list of this book, or from the "4-H Skills for Life" series, if your county uses them. Obviously, you should consider farm conditions for future expansion before considering a beef heifer project. They also may attend many fairs or shows and make many lifelong friends. Members may choose to participate with a heifer or a steer. All animals shown in 4-H at Eastern States may be no older than a yearling.
Recommended Animal Vaccinations : Rabies vaccination recommended vet administered 30 days and not more than one year prior to the date of the show.
Animal must originate from a non-quarantined, tuberculosis-negative herd. Forms, resources and Fact sheets here for members, volunteers, leaders and parents. Lease Form if applicable : Lease form must be complete with animal information and all signatures. Due Date: Must correspond with Intent to Show form date. The rule was changed to where if you are of 4-H age you are now eligible to show a market steer. In our county in Ohio you have to be 8 years old and in the 3rd grade to show animals.
You can join 4-H as a Cloverbud at the age of 5. As a 4-H advisor I would like to see our county set some kind of age limit to show the large animal species. I don't know what age is the right age because every situation is different but I see it all to often that a parent just grabs their kids fat steer and drag it all over the place and then when the kids get a hold of it the kid can't do anything with it.
It will be real unfortunate to see a kid get seriously hurt. I have seen many near misses and I had a near miss of being seriously hurt when I was a 15 or 16 year old boy trying to break one of my steers. These animals no matter how broke they are, are still wild animals and you never no when one sill get spooked and try to get away.
Member Posts: Karma 3. Here, from age they can show as cloverbuds, whatever project they want. Cloverbuds MUST have a parent in the ring with them though, regardless of what they are showing. A lot will have a baby calf, and then take that baby on to either the heifer futurity or to a market steer. Reinken Cattle Co. Member Posts: Karma 4. At this point they can show the summer they grad from highschool Steer Show vs.
It might also be worth considering the gains to be made from wet season sales at price peaks. For most this is not possible without investment in land with wet season access. The answer as always will be in the sums. If we asked the same question in Queensland, with better access to markets for heavier cattle, we are likely to conclude that 30 month turnoff is clearly preferable, and perhaps another year after that as well, although each increase in turnoff age will be less profitable than the one before.
To a small degree, most profitable male turnoff age is influenced by female productivity, since it is the tension between breeder profit and steer profit that drives age of turnoff. For the less productive areas of Northern Australia, the degree of improvement possible in breeder productivity may move optimum steer turnoff age back a year. A herd of cattle represents a significant investment in livestock capital. More importantly, this capital differs for herds of the same size total AE depending on age of male turnoff.
Herds turning off older steers tie up more capital than herds turning off weaners. The incremental approach to determining best age of turnoff thus has a capital dimension to it as well. Shifting the age of turnoff up a year may increase the gross margin, but it also increases the investment in the herd.
The extra gross margin must be sufficient to justify the extra capital. This can be ensured by including interest on livestock capital in the gross margin calculation. These shifts in herd capital can perhaps best be illustrated by what happens when age of turnoff is increased.
Assuming the change is implemented in one year, the male turnoff is held back for that year, and room is made for the extras by selling more cows. The cows are worth less than the unsold steers, so the herd increases its value while income goes short.
Similarly, if age of turnoff is reduced, by selling two drops of steers in the one year and holding back some cows, there is a flush of cash as herd capital is liquidated, though this is usually mistaken for income.
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