Show cattle products

blue82

I was considering entering one or two heifers into some of those winter fairs.
Just wondering what would be best to use for setting the hair or adding a bit of shine to the hair.
I have no idea where to start so all help is appreciated.

Lady Haywire

That young chap of Maxwells runs a bit of a side business in it, he's usually at most of the fatstock/show sales.

https://www.facebook.com/megashowsupplies/

http://pedigreecattle.ie/cattle-grooming are good, haven't used them in a few years though.

With the good value in sterling, https://www.fanevalleystores.com/category/11/animal-grooming might be your best bet.

Most of the co-ops or agri stores will have a small stand with supplies, different shampoos, combs, halters etc. Try to get a halter to contrast with the animal, red looks good on white/black cattle for example.
If you don't want to spend much, tack soap is good for setting the hair, this is the one I use. Just don't add water after you apply the soap or you'll have scummy looking suds on her.

greysides

Is it Linseed Oil that's added to the diet to give hair a shine?

Farrell

Some amount of stuff, What's the circular curry comb for?

Lady Haywire

Farrell wrote: »

Some amount of stuff, What's the circular curry comb for?

Cattle in the ring :D
It's a rougher type of comb that covers more hair faster, I just use to to take dirt off mostly,

MickeyShtyles

greysides wrote: »

Is it Linseed Oil that's added to the diet to give hair a shine?

Rapeseed oil does the trick too. Can get a gallon of cold pressed stuff off a supplier for €22.

jerdee

greysides wrote: »

Is it Linseed Oil that's added to the diet to give hair a shine?

I was given soya oil by my compounder to get a couple of bulls shiny,
worked a treat .

Muckit

Are they charolais?

A big bucket (or two or three) of warm water with a dash of wash up liquid. You'll need the circular comb to pull out the crap. Dont use the standard curry comb for this or you'll break the tines. Use this on clean hair only. A good rinse with a hose.

How are you going to dry them? Tricky this time of year without a blower. At nothing with a hairdryer l tried before! I used to use a cold blower but hot one only job.

I found shaving foam good to set hair for charolais. A dust of baby powder good to whiten stained hair.

Base price

This shampoo is good for white cattle and restores yellow stained hair.
https://www.triequestrian.ie/cms/cms.jsp?menu_id=30720&prodref=SHAM14

blue82

One is black in colour and one is roan.
Is soap used with water or is it just used on its own?

Lady Haywire

blue82 wrote: »

One is black in colour and one is roan.
Is soap used with water or is it just used on its own?

Normally used by wetting the animal, then wet the soap, lather it up a bit in your hand and smooth over the hair, then comb up again.
You can also make up a sugar spray soap, just mix sugar & salt in hot water and put into a spray bottle once cooled. I forget the ratio now but can prob find them again if you're interested.

blue82

Sounds interesting might try that.

Lady Haywire

500ml (so a small 7up/coke bottle) to 9 or 10 teaspoons of sugar & 5 of salt.
Might want to try it out beforehand, just to see if it works for you, you have to comb up, spray, let dry and repeat again and again until the hair holds. I always found it finnicky and used soap!