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JB, Wish we could carry any note. :shock: :wink: Thanks just the same. and I don't think Saddle Tramp would help us move anything. He's used to quiet cowboy makin up poem times when he's out on the range. Our crew of wild and wooly varmints could drive him insane. lol :twisted: for sure one of them would adopt him as their new partner and talk his ear off the whole way or they would spend the whole time fighting and crabbing like today on the way to check cows. lol :!:
Sic em, Yep Lilly is right we started putting a year brand on the shoulder of our heifers stacked like that about 3 or 4 years ago. It's really nice when someone like me goes to try to decide how old something is and is fun when you are checking cattle and you can just glance and see if she is young and run down or old and needs to go to town.
Those are Z tags. They are really easy to read. We use the large ones (a little big on a baby calf, but perfect the rest of the time) We have been putting the number on the tags right there in the pasture with the fast dry ztag markers and putting them in the calves for the last couple years, and they haven't faded like the ytex fast dry markers did. But we have decided to go back to ytex for next year. We started using the z's when k_ranch read they made less of a hole and healed better. But after two years, the holes are more than twice as big, you can easily work a ztag out of it's hole with just your fingers. Way more calves are losing their tags and tearing out their ears. When the weather was cold and we tagged, the calves ears bled like crazy, would even bleed easy the next day if bumped, making them freeze off more than we usually experience, didn't seem to matter where in the ear you put the tag or whether it was k_ranch or I that did it. :roll:
Nicky and Jassy Thanks, and as above it is the year brand, we almost had a contest here to name our brand once lol Our brand is on the left hip and is arrow up and arrow down, it doesn't really name well as far as a sounding cool like spear m or cicle h. Here is a pic of it.