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2007-03-26 07:56:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Yes.

2007-03-26 08:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 2 0

Cow Branding Iron

2016-11-16 23:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by puls 4 · 0 0

There are two ways to do it: heat branding and cold branding.

Cold branding uses irons cooled by liquid nitrogen to 150-175 degrees below zero. The irons destroy the flesh to create the brand but it is painless during and after. It is, though, expensive and somewhat impractical considering the circumstances in which many cattle are branded. However, no one really spends the spring rounding up cattle and sending the errant ones to their proper ranches and branding the young of their own anymore. So it is not as impractical as one might picture from movies. Just expensive.

Too bad for the cattle, for the poor young calf because...

Heat branding HURTS. My oh my. OUCH. It is cheap and easy though. Even use a nice electric brander if you like. Kind of like a huge version of the wood burning kits you have as a youngster. Bring that calf over, take your flat tip and carefully and slowly, don't want to leave a little healthy spot of flesh, draw it round and round to make the mark. Pick it up from the burnt flesh now and then so it can re-heat. Smell the lovely burnt flesh and hair smell. My God, and some of these folk weren't circumcised because their parents didn't really believe the doctors about the child not feeling or remembering pain from such a young moment in life.

It IS cheap. Easy. Cruel.

A nice ear tag hurts some too, but I easily know a hundred people who have one to several holes pierced in their ears and... other places. Not one single person who disdained those and ink tatoos, instead handing the artist a branding iron and a MOX blowtorch. Not one single person. Brutal.

Yeah, branding, as done by cheapies is harsh, nasty, cruel, brutal.

2007-03-26 08:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by roynburton 5 · 7 1

I have branded cattle and you better believe that hot branding does hurt.

There are more humane alternatives to hot branding: freeze branding, which is used on some breeds of horses; eartagging, and microchipping.

The main purpose of branding is to allow people who are working cattle that are roaming over large areas of land to easily be identified with regard to ownership, and also to make it harder for thieves to get away with stealing them. When cattle that have a brand are sold through a public sales yard, or are sent to a feedlot or slaughterhouse, there is supposed to be a review of the branded cattle for ownership issues.

Microchipping is more precise in terms of defining ownership, because the microchip, when scanned, can give lots of data that requires no interpretation. A brand, on the other hand, may for various reasons be difficult to read or be ambiguous in interpretation.

I believe that eventually hot-branding cattle will be a thing of the past. For now, freeze-branding, which is more humane and which does not result in damage to the hide of the cow, is to be preferred, but the problem is that it takes a bit more time and preparation to do it properly.

Eartags are good ID too, but the problem with them is that it's too easy to remove an eartag.

2007-03-26 08:11:39 · answer #4 · answered by Karin C 6 · 3 0

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2017-02-26 23:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

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It doesn't really hurt if they do it right. It just burns the first layer of skin. They make a lot of noise, but not because it hurt, it's because they're usually young calves and they've just been separated from their moms, so they really make a lot of noise.

2016-04-08 05:34:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

YES.

judging by how some cows will bellow or kick when it's being branded.
and also I know people who've been branded (body modification purposes).

2007-03-26 08:31:46 · answer #7 · answered by yukidomari 5 · 2 0

Duh, what do you think? Taking an educated guess, I'd say of course it hurts!

Karin C., very good alternatives. I saw on TV once about another way some people ID cows to prevent theft -- taking a "fingerprint" of a cow's snout. It's obviously painless, and each cow's snout is as individual as a fingerprint.

2007-03-27 15:22:26 · answer #8 · answered by kaz716 7 · 1 2

Ever since the 1960's cows have been genetically altered with mutant ooze, similar to what the Ninja Turtles were exposed to. As a result of this, cows feel no pain what-so-ever.

2007-03-26 08:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 5

Yes, but if they are healthy they recover from it pretty quickly (2 weeks). Their skin is lot thicker than ours, so it's not as harmful to them as you might think...that being said, cows can definitely get their brands infected if you aren't careful.

2007-03-26 08:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

yea i think it does hurt cows. I mean come on your burning there skin if some one did that to you wouldn't it hurt you?

2007-03-26 08:04:07 · answer #11 · answered by Jessica 1 · 2 0

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