Obviously, the 'dif'rent srokes for dif'rent folks' applies to tagging calves as well as other things in life!
We each own our cows on this ranch, with our own brands. We calve (other than the hiefers this year) 'outside' in fair size, rough pastures, and calves are tagged soon as they are found, for the most part. With a crewof four or five, people and depending on what other work is happening, there can be more than one person riding through them to handle the snuffy cows. We also are culling more of those kind! We will end up with lots of information for us, and for future owners on those tags, accessible by computer, which we are finding worth the time and cost at this point in time. We also will have them in several pastures after branding, some quite a distance from 'home', so see benefits there in easy visibility of the tags. Nothing is written in concrete, though.
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