MY SECOND SAE IS A MARKET STEER. I AM RAISING HIM FOR THE CABELL COUNTY FAIR, WE WILL BE IN CABELL COUNTY FOR SEVEN DAYS AND AFTER THE SHOW THEIR WILL BE AN AUCTION. BUT BEFORE WE EVEN GOT HIM THEIR ADVISOR HAD TO CALL THE FARM BUREAU AND GET THE LOAN APPROVED; THEN THE CABELL- MIDLAND FFA ADVISOR AND A COUPLE OTHER PEOPLE WENT TO INDIANNA TO GET THE STEERS; FINALLY HE ARRIVED AND WITH HIM CAME THE BIG RESPONSIBILITY OF GROOMING, FEEDING, WATERING, AND CLEANING UP AFTER HIM. AND WITH OUT THE FARM TRAIL NONE OF THIS WOULD EVEN BE POSSIBLE SO I REALLY THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME PREPARE FOR BUCKSHOT BILL (MY STEERWERE ALOT OF ARRANGEMENTS AND PREPARATIONS TO BE MADE; FIRST I HAD TO TALK TO MY FFA ADVISOR ABOUT A LOAN; THE FARM TRAIL GAVE ME A LOAN OF $800.OO THAT WILL BE PAID BACK THE DAY THE STEER SALES. MARY PHILLIPS IS THE ONE WHO LOCATED MY STEER AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO PICK HIM UP IN INDIANA THEY PICKED UP A TOTAL OF 5 STEERS FOR FFA STUDENTS. I THINK I AM THE ONLY ONE IN LINCOLN COUNTY TO BE DOIN A STEER. WE HAD ALOT OF PREPARATIONS TO DO BEFORE BUCKSHOTBILL ARRIVED LIKE BUILDIN A STALL FOR HIM, FIXING HIM A MANGER FOR HIS HAY AND HAD TO GET HIM A WATERING TUB FOR HIS WATER . WE WAITED UNTIL HE GOT HERE BEFORE WE WENT AND GOT HIS FEED BECAUSE HE WAS ON A SPECIAL DIET IT WAS 60 PERCENT CORN 30 PERCENT OATS AND 10 OF 32 TO 46% PROTEIN . MY STEER WAS BORN IN FEBRUARY OF 2007 AND HE WEIGHED 700 POUND WHEN I GOT HIM. HE WAS VERY SCARED OF ME WHEN HE FIRST GOT HERE BUT WE ARE GETTING ALONG SO WELL NOW HE LETS ME DO ANYTHING I WANNA DO TO HIM WITH OUT A PROBLEM . THE ONLY PROBLEMS I AM HAVIN IS LEADIN HIM AND HE IS NOT CRAZY ABOUT THAT AT ALL. BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HIM AND HOPEFULLY HE WILL COME AROUND. RIGHT NOW I HAVE HIM TIED IN THE BARN AND WHEN I FEED HIM I UNTIE HIM AND LEAD HIM TO HIS FEED BOWL AND I DO THE SAME WHEN HE DRINKS AND EATS HIS HAY. THAT IS WHAT MARY PHILLIPS SUGGESTED TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF IT SO I WILL UPDATE DAILY TO LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW IT IS WORKIN . I AM SUPPOSE TO LEAVE HIM TIED UP FOR 4 HOURS THE FIRST DAY AND 8 THE SECOND DAY AND THE 3RD DAY JUST DONT HAVE HIM UNTIED UNLESS I HAVE THE ROPE IN MY HAND SHE SAID HE WILL GET USED TO THE TUGGING OF THE ROPE BEING TIED UP AND WHEN I TUG IT HE WILL HOPEFULLY RESPOND GOOD. WELL THATS ALL FOR NOW TODAY IS FRIDAY DECEMBER THE 21 ST @ 930. OK MY DAD BUILT ME A LOT TO LEAD MY STEER IN AND I WENT TO THE BARN THIS EVENING AND UNTIED HIM AND HE EAT HIS GRAIN AND GOT HIM A DRINK THE THING THAT MAKES THIS EVENING ANY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OF THE OTHERES IS I HELD ON TO HIS ROPE AND HE DID LEAD SOME WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME HE HAS EVER DID THAT SO I GUESS TODAY WAS SUCCESSFUL AS FAR AS MY SAE GOES. I TOOK HIM OUT IN THE PEN DAD BUILT FOR HIM AND LEAD HIM AROUND IN CIRCLES AND THEN I TOOK HIM FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER HE DID RESPOND TO ME VERY WELL WHEN ITUGGED ON THE ROPE HE ONLY STIFFENED OUT A FEW TIMES BUT HE DIDNT STAY LIKE THAT HE DID GIVE IN AND LEAD SO I TIED HIM BACK UP IN THE CORNER WHEN I WAS FINISHED WITH HIM THIS EVENING AND I WILL LEAD HIM SOME MORE IN THE MORNING ... I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON BREAKING BUCKSHOT COMPLETELY TO LEAD , HE DOES PRETTY GOOD IN THE LOT WHERE I LEAD HIM , MR. SAXE AND MARY PHILLIPS CAME OUT ON DEC.24 TO HELP ME SOME WITH HIM , ok I know its been a few days since I documented and I do apologize but for the latest with buckshot he is leading some but he still has lots of room for improving but you just got to take it day by day ..I can tell that he is leading better everytime I get him out of his stall.. Today is january 12 we took buckshotbill to the pumpin park to get him weighed .. I was a little worried about how he was gonna lead but he really made me proud he walked right out of the trailor into the head gate to be wormed and weighed.. We was the 2nd ones to be weighed and we was finished in just a few minutes he never acted up the first time when we first opened the trailor door he just kinda stood there for a few minutes lookin everything over I personally dont think he wanted anypart of what was going on outside of his trailor but he did not jump or anything we did however have to push on him to get him to stand up he didnt wanna move but other than that I was so proud of him and his weight was 920 pounds.... I had so many different feelings going on with me today it wasnt even funny .. When I got up this morning I WAS SUPER EXCITED and on the way to the fair ground I got so super nervous and really didnt know what to expect and when we got down to the fair ground it was almost going to school at a new school because I DIDNT KNOW ANYONE THERE AND I seemed to be the only nervous one there but this was my first year ever doing anything like this and they all new what to expect so that is probably why but anyways it was an awesome feeling to see my steer come out of the trailor and keep all four of his feet on the ground. That is a moment I WILL CHERISH FOR ALONG TIME BECAUSE that was one of the things I was worried about and I did it over nothing because he acted like a professional when he got back in the trailor I gave him his treat because he deserved it .. so far this has been the most awsomest thing I have ever done in my life and yes I know it aint over yet but this is gonna be a project I plan on doing again ......