About 5%2C000 brands are registered in Missouri A cow/calf pair can go for %241%2C500-%241%2C800 Farmers form neighborhood watches to deter rustlers The Kleiboeker ...

The online version of the branding iron was unveiled Monday, as the federal and provincial governments officially launched the new Premises Identification Database (PID) to improve the response to ...

Hot iron branding of livestock is the oldest form of permanent identification and has been used for a long time in the western United States as proof of ownership. Freeze branding is relatively ...

That's what Monto's Peter Pownall discovered as he used the Queensland Cattle Brand Registry to track his family history back to 1872, when his great uncle first registered the family brand. The brand ...

Walker Westman scampers. He scampers through a crowd of people buzzing around with hot irons, an ear-piercing gun, syringes loaded with antibiotics, vaccines and painkillers. He scampers among cowboys ...

QUANAH, Texas — Roddy Dean Pippin is a cattle rustler. It’s a strange modern-day occupation that comes with plenty of old job-related hazards, short of hanging. Early on, a mother cow spotted Pippin ...

The concept of cattle branding may make some people squeamish, but the ancient practice is one of the main factors keeping the world’s cattle trade from falling into chaos. Of course, cattle rustlers ...