To the untrained eye, cattle brands ... morphology.Livestock branding dates back to 2700 BC, evidenced by Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Ancient Romans are said to have used hot iron brands ...

Why make a lasting impression on your cattle? To fend off cattle rustlers ... customized brand with the local county clerk. Hot-iron branding has withstood the test of time (four-thousand-plus ...

Soon, it would be time to start branding cattle. Everyone turned south ... sizzled on top of the furnace, a small, iron tube with a gas flame used to heat the branding irons.

On the Burdick Ranch, nestled in Nebraska’s Sandhills, spring cattle branding is ... down a calf in preparation for branding. A third man readies a branding iron. Over the eight decades the ...