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  2. Livestock branding - Wikipedia

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    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 the term now includes alternative techniques.

  3. Branding iron - Wikipedia

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    The history of branding is very much tied to the history of using animals as a commodity. The act of marking livestock with fire-heated marks to identify ownership begins in ancient times with the ancient Egyptians. [1] The process continued throughout the ages, with both Romans and American colonists using the process to brand slaves as well. [2]

  4. Earmark (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Cattle being earmarked and electrically branded An earmarked donkey. An earmark is a cut or mark in the ear of livestock animals such as cattle, deer, pigs, goats, camels or sheep, made to show ownership, year of birth or sex. The term dates to the 16th century in England. [1]

  5. Freeze brand - Wikipedia

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    A feral horse captured by the Bureau of Land Management and freeze branded using the alpha-angle system.From left to right the brand says the horse is registered to the federal government, was born in the year 2000 and carries the registration number 012790, indicating that it was branded at a BLM facility in Oregon.

  6. Mark (sign) - Wikipedia

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    certification of the product quality (certification mark, for example, an assay mark). In the 17th century in the English cloth trade a new class of marks was created, now called trademarks : the cloth was required to contain both the maker's mark (initials of the maker) and the mark of the clothier , indicating the capitalist who furnished the ...

  7. Wyoming Stock Growers Association - Wikipedia

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    The Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA) is an American cattle organization that started in 1872 among Wyoming cattle ranchers to standardize and organize the cattle industry but quickly grew into a political force that has been called "the de facto territorial government" [1] of Wyoming's organization into early statehood, and wielded great influence throughout the Western United States.

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  9. Martín De León - Wikipedia

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    Their cattle brand, with a connected E and J (standing for Espíritu de Jesús), became the first registered cattle brand in what was to become Texas. The brand had been modeled after one used by the Jesuits, and brought from Spain when the De León family emigrated. Martín officially registered it in Texas under the family name in 1807.