Odessa
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Market Steers
Oct 1, 2026
Reserve Grand Champion
#1088
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Feature
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Cattle Weaning: calves born in the game start out nursing and are weaned by their owner from the cattle page (Owner Options > Management > Wean). There is no minimum age. The age and weight at weaning go on the animal's History as its weaning weight. Starter cattle are created already weaned. The Seedstock Buyer only bids on weaned cattle.
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Reset
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Game The game has been reset. All cattle, pregnancies, semen, auctions, show entries, transactions, and balances have been wiped. Everyone starts fresh with $10,000.
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Updated
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Oklahoma City Congress</strong> — runs the 2nd of each month at 1:00 PM CT in Oklahoma. Entry fee 5 credits.
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Shows Terminal shows are now terminal only for the steers that <strong>earn a premium</strong> (top 5 in class). Those are sold to the Packer after the show pays out — every other steer comes home to your herd, and you''ll get an alert when it does.
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Shows The Packer acknowledgement on the show page is asked <strong>once per show</strong>. Tick it for your first steer and it covers every steer you enter in that show; after that a terminal slot is a one-click Enter.
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Shows The big terminal-show notice is gone from the show page. Look for the red <strong>Terminal Show</strong> pill next to Steers in Current Entries (it links to the help topic); results pages now mark each terminal steer <em>Packer</em> or <em>Came home</em> once the show pays out.
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Feature
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Auction The Seedstock Buyer has arrived: an outside buyer that bids on breeding bulls and females the moment they are listed, priced by a demand curve — flood a breed and it pays less per head, fill a gap and it pays more. See the new Seedstock Demand board in the Auction House for what it is paying this month.
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Added
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Cattle Cull: you can now cull an animal from its cattle page (Owner Options > Cull). A culled animal leaves the game for good and is removed from your herd; its record, pedigree, papers and show results stay on file, and semen or embryos already collected stay in storage. No coins are paid or charged. An animal that is at auction, checked in to a show, or committed to a terminal show has to clear that first.
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Updated
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Phoenix National</strong> — runs the 31st of each month at 1:00 AM CT. Entry fee 10 credits.
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Odessa</strong> — runs the 1st of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Western National</strong> — runs the 3rd of each month at 1:00 PM CT. Entry fee 5 credits.
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Fort Worth</strong> — runs the 4th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 5 credits.
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Fort Worth</strong> — runs the 4th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 850 credits.
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Show Schedule Recurring show updated: <strong>Fort Worth</strong> — runs the 4th of each month at 1:00 AM CT in Texas. Entry fee 850 credits.
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Weight Weight is now partially dependent on actual birth weight.
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Added
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Shows <strong>Terminal shows.</strong> Some steer shows are now terminal: steers placed in a <span class="badge badge-danger">TERMINAL</span> sub show are sold to the Packer after judging and do not return to your herd. In exchange they show for premiums from a monthly pot instead of entry fees — Grand, Reserve Grand, Breed Champion, Reserve Breed Champion and 1st–5th in every class. Premiums are not cumulative: a steer is paid its single highest award. Look for the red badge on the calendar and the show page, tick the confirmation before you enter, and read the <a href="/Help">Terminal Shows</a> help topic first.
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Shows A steer entered in a terminal show is <strong>committed</strong>: it can't be listed for auction, and it can't be entered in any show dated after the terminal one. If you sell it before the show, the entry is scratched at check-in. Its record, pedigree and show results stay on file after it goes to the Packer.
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Added
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Admin Cattle Diagnostics shows the full birth-weight roll for any animal: every factor, what the model expected, and what was recorded.
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Calving The cow matters. Bull calves weigh more than heifer calves. First-calf heifers have lighter calves than mature cows, three- and four-year-olds fall in between, and old cows tail off a little. Bigger cows have slightly heavier calves. On an ET calf it is the recipient that counts, not the donor.
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Calving Calves lost at birth get a birth weight on their record too, and the defect shows in it.
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Genetics Birth weights. Every calf is weighed at birth and the weight stays on its record for life. It shows on the animal page under Details.
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Genetics Birth weight comes from the calf's own genetics measured against its breed: calving ease direct (the big one), growth, and frame. A bull with strong calving-ease genetics sires lighter calves; a big-framed, high-growth bull sires heavier ones.
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Genetics Breed matters. Every breed has its own birth-weight baseline: Angus and Red Angus light, Hereford and Shorthorn in the middle, Simmental, Charolais, Maine-Anjou and Chianina heavy, and the small breeds (Longhorn, Highlander, American Aberdeen, Mini Hereford, Watusi) well below everyone else.
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Genetics Bos indicus works both ways. A Brahman bull on Bos taurus cows throws heavy calves. A Brahman cow restricts calf size and throws light ones no matter the sire, which is also why straightbred Brahman calves are born small. Brahman-influenced composites carry a share of each effect.
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Genetics Crossbred calves pick up hybrid vigor at birth: a little for a Bos taurus cross, a good deal more for a Brahman x Bos taurus cross. Inbreeding takes birth weight off.
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Herd New BW (birth weight) column in the herd list, sortable, and in the CSV export.
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Changed
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Calving Calving records now read the calf back, e.g. "Calved to Sire Name: 82 lb bull calf." The calving alert says the same.
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Cattle Current weight now starts from the calf's actual birth weight instead of a breed average, so a heavy-born calf starts heavy. Weaning, yearling and mature weights are unchanged.
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Updated
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Breeding Cattle will only breed naturally/automatically if they have a pasture assigned to them.
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Registration Santa Gertrudis papers now require a solid red coat — roan, brindle, white markings, and diluted colors no longer qualify.
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Improved
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Cattle Breed names now read the way cattlemen say them: Black Baldy / Red Baldy, Tigerstripe, Braford, Charbray, Santa Gertrudis, Red Brangus, Lim-Flex, Balancer, MaineTainer, ChiMaine and Shorthorn Plus join the existing composites. Two-breed crosses now show both sides (3/4 Angus 1/4 Hereford), continental breeds at 7/8 and up are Purebred, and 100% is Fullblood.
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Added
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Forum Admins can check "Alert Everyone" when starting a thread to send all players (or only those active in the last 90 days) a bell notification linking to it.
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Reset
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Game The game has been reset. All cattle, pregnancies, semen, auctions, show entries, transactions, and balances have been wiped. Everyone starts fresh with $10,000.
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Game The game has been reset. All cattle, pregnancies, semen, auctions, show entries, transactions, and balances have been wiped. Everyone starts fresh with $10,000.
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