Category Archives: Rodeo Business

Blog entries pertaining to the rodeo business.

Why you should have a professional voice on your business voicemail.

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Hello everyone,  I would like to share an article  written by Jill Tarnoff that was posted on the voices.com website concerning the use of a professional voice for  your business voice mail and IVR systems. Quite frankly there are many businesses that could benefit from this and, with all the different stops in different communities where I work events this could prove to be a tremendous opportunity to have these types of recordings completed.   I often travel with my portable recording gear capable of broadcast quality recordings while I am on the road!  The important thing  to remember is that this valuable resource is available at a very reasonable cost for your business.

Voice talent and speech coach Jill Tarnoff shares her experiences calling in to book appointments with a healthcare provider and how the voice on an automated telephone system recording sets tone for the remainder of a call and speaking with a real person.

Here is the link to the complete blog article http://blogs.voices.com/voxdaily/2011/06/voices_for_business_voicemails.html

Please research before giving to these radical animal rights groups!

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As I mentioned in an earlier blog, there are a lot of groups out to get the sport of rodeo.  These same so called animal rights groups are fundraising factories, and have a history of spending their money on politics rather than the animal care they convey to the people who support them. Check out this article on one such group known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Amanda Radke of Beef Daily recently posted an article on the HSUS with these interesting facts.

Another one of these well funded, misguided groups, is the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, spending less than 1/2 of 1% of its annual budget to assist animal shelters.

Think everyone in your circle already knows these facts? Think again. I’ve had countless people listen to me speak on this topic and later come up to me to share their frustrations over having just sent a check to the organization.We all need to continue to spread the word and educate our peers about the true agenda of HSUS, which is to abolish animal agriculture and eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from the American dinner table. The group plans to do this by using litigation and legislation to regulate farmers out of business and escalate the cost of food.

Watch this video, courtesy of Missouri Farmers Care, to learn more and pass it along to your friends. Spread the word on this topic.

 

 

What are you doing to educate your peers on this subject that not only has targeted the sport of rodeo, but the industry of Agriculture?

Rehabilitated Bucking Horse Back in Top Form!

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With all the talk about Carrie Underwood giving lots of money to support animal rights groups recently. I felt it necessary to touch on this subject and really focus on the great animal care that does go on in the rodeo industry. This hot topic is very controversial and many of these animal rights groups are not only radical beyond belief but, well funded, and not very educated on the true facts about rodeo and the care that really happens behind the scenes. Well, that in itself will be a great topic for a future blog but, today I couldn’t help but feel the need to spread the good word about the great care rodeo animals do receive in our industry.

My colleague and good friend fellow PRCA Rodeo Announcer Steve Kenyon of Pro Rodeo Live recently sent me this interesting article about an interview with a PRCA Stock Contractor and one such story about going above and beyond in the care of one of his prize bucking horses and I feel the need to share it with you today.

Enjoy the read and leave your comments, or share your own personal story and, help spread the word about the great care that we do give the animals in our sport!

If you would like to know more about Steve, check out his website at ProRodeoLive.com!

 

The Brother Story – A conversation with JK Rodeo Company’s Jim Kenney

-Courtesy of Steve Kenyon

You already know that bareback rider Kaycee Feild set the arena record at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in his event when he rode the JK Rodeo Company bucking horse Brother in the championship round for 93 points.

The horse Feild rode, Brother, is a many times WNFR selected horse who won the top horse award in San Antonio for the second time in three years a week ago Saturday.
And quite frankly, if Brother wasn’t making his living in the sport of rodeo, he might not be alive today.
He missed all of 2010’s rodeo season after a freak accident in the trailer after the rodeo in Odessa a year ago. We talked to Kenney about Brother and asked him to tell us his story.

I was taking the horses home after a performance in Odessa, somehow he got his foot hung in a slat and injured his pastern joint. We took some X-Rays and found that the cartilage has been damaged. I thought that he was ruined and he would have been if we hadn’t had the surgery we eventually had on him.

Kenney said he took Brother to Dr. Watkins at Texas A & M, who told him he had never worked on a bucking horse but that he had done several jumping horses.

I told him if he could do a jumping horse he could do a bucking horse, Dr. Watkins agreed and we went ahead and did surgery on him. They took the cartilage out of the pastern joint and fused that bone together to make one joint. It turns out there’s very little motion in a horses foot there, most of the motion is in the ankle. They put a plate in to hold the bones together where they had fused.They kept him there for 20 days, I brought him home and kept him in a 20X20 pen for another 120 days to keep him from running around. After that we turned him out in the arena and hecame up sound. Dr Watkins told me in April to lay him off for eight months, I decided to just wait and leave him off until Odessa this year.

Brother’s performance has been outstanding since his return.

They split second and third on him in Odessa, he was in the short go in Fort Worth and they were 86 on him there, he finished right behind another one of my horses, Molly. Then I took him to San Antonio and they set the record on him there.I didn’t know that procedure could be done, but I was very pleased that this horse was able to be rehabilitated to the point that he can buck. He doesn’t sore up, he’s not lame, he seems toget better every time he bucks.

Kenney said Brother is now 11 years old. He said the work they did on him was expensive, but in his opinion in was well worth it.

Dr. Watkins said that 85 to 90 % of the horses he worked on he could get back to performing the way they were before the surgery. And most of them were older than Brother. I just knew that he has done a very good job for me, and I was going to do everything I could to save him. If that surgery wasn’t available he wouldn’t have made it.

Now, the way things are going, it looks like Brother’s got a great chance to return to the Wrangler NFR this December.

 
You’ll be able to hear more of our interview with Jim Kenney next week on the Pro Rodeo Report, in conjunction with WebTalkRadio.net. We’ll focus on the livestock of Pro Rodeo in the program that will be uploaded next Monday.