The Fitting Clinic

If you have ever stood in a wash rack before daylight with a blower in your hand and a calf leaning into you, this book already speaks your language.

It is built differently from most. Donna Minton Williams does not deal in opinions, because everybody has one of those. She deals in counsel, which is what you get when you ask people who have actually done the thing and done it well. So every chapter convenes a council of some of the best fitters and educators in the country. Where they agree, she says so. Where they do things differently, she says that too, and tells you why.

Eight chapters, in the order the work happens. What fitting really is. The coat that starts months out. Rinsing, washing, and conditioning. Blowing and training hair. Clipping the haired animal. Slick shearing. Show day fitting. The fitting kit and the chute.

Then the parts you will come back to: the products she actually uses, a complete fitting checklist, an AI fitting care assistant you build yourself, a glossary, and the common mistakes.

It closes with a heifer named Annie.