I mostly perform for children and family events. I do not work with livestock, but I saw this prop and thought it would serve my needs as a way to vanish/change particular items. It is well made and works great. I have a running gag where bananas keep appearing during the show. These are not real bananas and they are not sponge bananas - the ones I use look real yet can compress, so I hide them in all my props. At the end of the show I take out this box and place the bananas in one at a time. You can clearly see them through the window in the front of the box. I then use a few comedy wands to vanish the bananas but run into trouble. Finally, I produce an 8 foot appearing wand and have a helper wave the wand while the audience shouts the magic words, and boom! The bananas vanish. Instead of a silk jumping out of the top I use some 0.75" x 2" yellow confetti, so it give the illusion the bananas change to confetti. It is a great closer. Use your imagination and this can be a really cool prop in your show.