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2. Livestock branding - Wikipedia

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   Photochrom print Hot iron horse branding, Spain Modern portable table calf branding cradle, NSW, Australia A stud Merino ram that has been branded on his horn. Livestock branding is a technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner. Originally, livestock branding only referred to hot branding large stock with a branding iron, though ...

3. Branding iron - Wikipedia

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   The branding iron consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark which was heated in a fire. After the branding iron turned red-hot, the cowhand pressed the branding iron against the hide of the cow. The unique brand meant that cattle owned by multiple owners could then graze freely together on the commons or open range.

4. Human branding - Wikipedia

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   They would often brand the slaves' palms, shoulders, buttocks, or cheeks with a branding iron. [11] Branding was sometimes used to mark recaptured runaway slaves to help the locals easily identify the runaway. Micajah Ricks, a slave owner in Raleigh, North Carolina, was looking for his slave and described, "I burnt her with a hot iron, on the ...

5. Freeze brand - Wikipedia

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   Freeze branding requires longer periods of contact of up to one minute to create successful brands. Despite requiring a deviation from room temperature less than half that seen in hot branding, taking the branding iron to its cryogenic working temperature is a far more involved and time consuming process than that used in hot-iron branding.

6. Cowboy - Wikipedia

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   In order to determine the ownership of individual animals, they were marked with a distinctive brand, applied with a hot iron, usually while the cattle were still calves. [ 35 ] In order to find young calves for branding, and to sort out mature animals intended for sale, ranchers would hold a roundup , usually in the spring. [ 36 ]

7. Hostel staff detained after 6 deaths linked to alcohol poisoning

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   Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff members of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, state media reported ...

8. Jon Gosselin is engaged to girlfriend after 3 years of dating ...

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   Jon Gosselin, 47, who is now a DJ, proposed to Lebo on Nov. 23 at her favorite restaurant, Willoughby’s on Park in Wyomissing, Pa., according to an interview the couple did with Entertainment ...

9. Animal identification - Wikipedia

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   Branding (hot-iron) Branding (freeze) Microchip implants; Lip tattoo; Cattle. Anklets; ... Santa Gertudis cattle with electronic and non-electronic ear tags.