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Out our way, we tag cattle with ear tags, which are much easier to read than brands, I find. Except for a short time each fall, there are no open range roundups where cattle from different herd are mixed together and need to be separated - but even so, the cattle are tagged so there is no question who they belong to, The tag is a brightly colored bit of plastic with a large number on it that identifies both the individual cow and the herd to which it belongs.
I have shared that time a stray somehow got into the Tiger Ridge herd when Charlie and I were riding fence that one time. As Big Mik...
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