As the summer show season draws to a close, you might face unique challenges that can impact your animal’s performance in the ring.
The late-season can bring its own set of hurdles, from maintaining optimal health to dealing with the wear and tear of constant travel and show preparation.
Understanding these challenges and knowing how to address them can make the difference between a successful season finale and a disappointing finish.
Fatigue and Stress Management
One of the most significant challenges during the late season is managing fatigue and stress in your animals.
After weeks or even months of traveling from show to show, animals can experience physical and mental exhaustion. This stress can lead to reduced performance, a drop in appetite and condition, and even illness.
How to Fix It:
Routine Rest: Ensure your animals get enough rest between shows. Incorporating downtime where they can relax in a comfortable, stress-free environment is essential.
Hydration and Nutrition: Keep your animals well-hydrated and provide them with a balanced diet that includes stress-relief supplements if needed. Consider adding electrolytes to their water during particularly hot or stressful periods.
Minimize Travel Stress: Plan travel routes and schedules to minimize long hauls and reduce the frequency of loading and unloading, which can be stressful.
Maintaining Condition and Appearance
As the season progresses, maintaining your animal’s condition and appearance becomes more challenging. Exposure to different environments and the stress of travel can lead to a decline in coat quality, skin condition, and overall appearance..
How to Fix It:
Nutrition: Ensure your animals receive a diet rich in vitamins and minerals that promote a healthy coat and skin.
Appetite Supplements: Incorporate appetite-boosting supplements to maintain consistent feed intake, supporting overall condition and energy levels.
Muscle Supplements: Use muscle-building supplements to help maintain and enhance muscle mass, ensuring your animals remain strong and well-conditioned.
Environmental Control: Control the environment as much as possible, especially when it comes to air quality and bedding cleanliness, to prevent skin irritation and coat damage.
Hoof and Pad Health
With travel from show to show, your animal’s feet are likely stressed. Ensuring maximum foot and pad quality is critical to reaching the winner’s circle as final shows are quickly approaching. This becomes even more important in the late season when the wear and tear on hooves and pads is at its peak.
How to Fix It:
Regular Inspections: Check your animal’s feet regularly for signs of wear, cracks or other issues. Address any problems immediately to prevent them from worsening.
Foot Baths: Consider regular foot baths with antiseptic solutions to keep hooves clean and healthy.
Late Season Show Supplements
With these late-season challenges in mind, it’s crucial to have the right products to maintain your animal’s health and performance. Ralco Show offers essential products to help you achieve your end-season goals.
Show Gun: Reduce Stress & Keep Animals on Feed
Show Gun can help you reduce stress and get your show animals back on track. This natural oral drench contains patented ingredients designed to reduce stress, promote appetite, and ensure your animals are ready for the ring in no time.
Show Gun helps:
Manage show stress
Promote appetite and maintain digestive health
Support immune function
Manage joint pain and fever
Appetite Attack: Maximize Nutrition
Appetite Attack is a daily gut health supplement that helps you get more out of your nutrition program. By keeping your show animals consistently eating, Appetite Attack ensures they stay on feed and reach their goals.
Appetite Attack helps:
Get livestock back on feed faster
Minimize health issues
Support immunity
Enhance freshness and eye appeal
On Point: Ultimate Muscle & Shape
On Point is the key to giving your project a fresher, more youthful look while creating more cover and mass on the top side of their skeleton. This supplement helps your show animals build muscle quickly with its high-protein, low-fat formula, enhancing muscle shape and definition without adding bulk.
On Point helps:
Promote a fresher, more youthful look
Build muscle fast
Encourage intake
Electrolyte: Daily No-Nonsense Hydration
Keep your animals hydrated and thriving with Electrolyte. This supplement delivers essential electrolytes to boost hydration and vitality, along with probiotics to support gut health and improve intake.
Electrolyte helps:
Promote hydration
Manage stress
Achieve a fuller look
Stro N Flo: Crank the Sound
Stro N Flo focuses on proper health for hooves and pads to keep your animals sound and in the best shape possible. Make sure your stock have the best chance in the ring with Stro N Flo.
Stro N Flo helps:
Maintain hoof and pad health
Promote soundness
Support immune function
Essential Dry: For Fresh Stalls & Barns
Essential Dry is an easy-to-use product that helps prolong your bedding, freshen the air and reduce ammonia odors in one easy application!
Helps overcome:
Damp indoor environments
Harmful ammonia odors
Low air quality
Poor ventilation issues