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Once a day, we’d step on each lead rope and tie each calf while we took temperatures and checked for scours (calf diarrhea). Now halter trained, the calves were ready for the next step.

Most show animals are halter trained at a young age. Kids that grow up on a ranch might select a calf from the ranch herd, or buy a calf from a breeder who raises quality animals.