Beef Cattle Daily Hair Care Tips From Nasco & Cd Show Cattle

All right so now we're to talk about a little hair daily care. I guess what we call different things we can put in there. I like to use all these products, but in different situations. The pro hair I want to use on a daily basis, come summertime. What I want to do is, after we talked about getting all the dead hair out. This cattle is slicked haired we're starting to go into the cooler we're going into the summer season with warmer temperatures, we're going to start rinsing them a couple of times a day or on a regular basis once we rinse these cattle and we get them completely dry. Actually, we don't even want it, we might even be able to leave these a little damp and we'll apply the pro hair in there we'll brush it in and then we'll allow the fans to get on them and dry completely and then we'll come back and we'll Hit them with a blower again, and it will really work that hair. So I think that's one one tool you can use there in the summertime and I mean fall time just. However, it's gon na fit in your program. Well, that's a good example how to use it to get into Pro charge. This is a little more aggressive product. I think if you have some flaky skin or you're, challenging some skin or you're having some challenges with skin issues. I think this is a product to go to if you want to have fast results, but you're gon na have to be careful, because if this does, if you apply this a lot, it's gon na heat up that animal. So you don't want to put this in there, then kick him out in the Sun just because it's gon na heat them up and it could potentially cause hair to come out we're getting the shirt coat, and I think this is very similar to pro hair. Does a lot of the same things? Now I'm not going to talk completely about this? Is I'm gon na restate a lot of that? What I said about the pro hair, but I think, with a sure, coat you just got to decide which one's gon na work best for your program and, like I said you can get all these at nasco. I think they have all sorts of different options but, like I said these are the ones I like to use on a regular basis and we go back, and what I like to do is talk about my two favorite combs when we're start. These are my two favorite comes when I talked about working hair after we put the product in you know I like to actually go ahead and just use this wide range brush, and you know you can starting off, you might have to work the hair forward. You know I just got to kind of play with the hair and see how it works best for you, but I definitely want to go forward at all times. We don't want to go any other direction, eventually, you'll be able to work the hair up and once the hair gets longer. I like to switch combs. I like to switch combs to this full tooth comb right here. I think that works great. It especially works good on these thinner, haired animals or a little coarser type hair. If we get into like a steer, that's got a lot of thick hair. We might use a skip tooth to comb, but I think right now, like a hair type like this. This brush works really good for this type of hair. Alright, we're going to go over the shedding comb, solvents and Weaver make both this product. It'S a dual sided product. First, I want to talk about the hair cycle of the calf. It'S going to be 90 to 120 days, so we want to keep that an idea when we're talking about our target show. So if your target shows state-fair, you're gon na want to back clock about 90 to 100 days, whatever you're comfortable with so we're gon na get into it. This is about the time of year, it's about April 5th that you're gon na start thinking about shutting your calves off and start a new hair cycle. So basically, how I like to do it. I just want to go ahead and, and I'll first start with going this ball. That'S just first state that this calf it's got pretty good hair. Still, it's not dying, so it's not gon na pull out very good, but normally, if it's been out in the Sun, it's starting to warm out these cattle are going to start sucking hair. So this combs actually just going to pull the hair right out of the calf. Like I said, this one's still got pretty good hair. So it's not a great example, but it is gon na pull some of the hair off and basically you want to keep doing this. You can see it falling off there, but you want to keep doing this until this hair is no longer coming out. So then, you'll go to the other side, do the same thing and then you're done for the day, but you're not done for good. You want to do this. You know two or three times a week until you think you have no more hair left. The other thing I want to hit on is you want to stay out of the quarters, the legs here, the belly line and their tail head. We want to try to savor as much hair in those areas as we find when we're trying to grow it in the summertime to be a little more challenging to do so. Well, I think that's kind of the run-through on the comb and I think it's a good purchase and it's underrated process that we need to do more of we're going to talk about the rotor brush here. Next, there's different types of brushes: you can get to put on your cordless drill or just a regular drill you can plug in this. One right here is a it's got two different lengths, the bristles here I really like that. It'S not as aggressive the other reason. I like to, or I want to talk about why I like to use a cordless drill. It'S got a clutch in it, so when you start this up and you get into you know, brushing your calf with it. I think it's important if you got a tail swinging and it swings into your ear your drill here, it's gon na stop, so I mean immediately gon na stop for you. If you got a one without a clutch on it, it's going to keep turning and then you're gon na have a mess. So I think it's very important to have one with a clutch on it and then actually, I'm gon na go ahead and show you it's kind of my example here we always want to take this brush and have it turning this way. This this way, I guess, and that way we're going up against the hair and it's gon na pull that hair away from the skin or the hide and we're actually going to go ahead and show you here and what I did there is I like to go Up and then I like to come back down and the reason like I come like to come back down, it relieves the pressure off some of that hair and I don't want to go over it too many times. I think it can irritate skin and I just think this is like a thing you want to do every you know. So often I don't want to do it on a regular basis. I'Ll do it. You know two or three times a week. Then we get to the back side. You'Re gon na have to switch the direction your drill, so you can keep that hair going up and I like to work all the way around the leg here. This way we get all angles. That'S what I like to do. The front leg, then we get into the back leg and it's the same concept. You want to keep in mind how you're gon na be clipping these cattle or fitting these cattle, or even just on a daily care basis, on how you want to work. The hair and that's going to play true to how you want to use the rotor brush so keeping it going forward. Keeping it going up is all what you want to keep in mind here. We'Re still going the same direction and we're gon na switch. The drill and that's what how we use the rotor brush you