Texas cattle brands

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Cattle brands date back to ancient times, depicted in Egyptian tombs and Biblical stories. Today they impact theft prevention and ranch traditions.

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by Linda Farmer Harris It's cattle buying time, which means it's branding time, too. We're raising a small herd this year, but the work i...

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The idea of a brand as a company identity and the notion of a brand as a burned-in mark may seem unrelated, but they share a common origin. The word “brand” initially connoted fire or burning in most ancient Germanic languages, and it was through fire and burning that livestock were marked as belonging to a specific ow