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Personal Narrative: Hair Sprawl

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In October of 2013 my brother Mark and I backed up the trailer and headed to Bellflower, Missouri to buy my first show calf. I’d shown hogs before but I was the girl that always wanted to challenge myself. My brother had shown steers since he was ten. He seemed to always know the right thing to do. Mark always was the one to figure out all the supplies we needed to buy. Adhesive, black hair spray, the clippers,brushes, halters, and all different show supplies. I was so new to things, I really just jumped in not knowing anything I was doing. We went down to the steer pin every night at 7:30 after dinner. I grabbed a bucket and sat right next to the feeder. My brother said sitting by your steer will improve comfortability with them and will

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