I think some of you are saying that you knife cut your calves at birth. Is this correct and are there any draw backs. The company I work for may as well be a seedstock operation on the cutting edge. I not only tag, I weigh each individual calf, last year I gave alpha 7. All of this information kept track of on a Recon (military palm pilot) with cowsense herd file. So when I go out to tag I look like I am going on a long trip or something. We time breed part of the cows so we calve rather rapidly. I would like to find the simplest and fastest way to meet their request. I would rather knife cut at branding and I would not ever tag if I had a choice.