—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1967
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Freeze Branding branding, the now method doci
Trim A In Mfinflfind not produce a hairless scar.
I ned in Moryiond The halr dI cHpp#d ext rcmeiy
“Nope, we don't need a Are * or the branding and
. . . we're goin’ to freeze-brand
these critters.” hag n 0 value on naturally
The old phrase about heat* white cattle,
fag the branding irons may be In the Maryland experiment,
on the way out; if this new Dr. Ferguson eald. (he Mary
method catches on, the fore- land Beef Cattle Improvement
man may have to tell the cow- Association supplied the ma
boys to “get the branding irons terials and the University’s Ag
cooled down.” rkuftural Engineering Depart-
A Livestock Management ment made a set of aluminum
class at the University of Ma- branding “irons.” The nine 4-
ryland tried an experiment in inch high numerals have %
February of this year and the inch square faces and have a
results look promising as a stainless steel rod screwed in
method of marking cattle per- to them. Wooden handles pro
minently and painlessly. tect the operator’s hands from
“Ini Maryland,” Dr. James the extreme cold.
Ferguson, Extension livestock Dr. Emory C. Leffel, profes
specialist at the University, sor of Animal Science and his
hurries to add, “The system livestock management students
.will probably be used only for used about four to six inches
individual animal identification, of methanol in the bottom of a
Freeze brands are not likely styrofoam picnic cooler to low
•to be used —at least not just er the temperature of the
yet to establish ownership, “irons.” Fifteen pounds of “dry
In fact, he emphasizes, the ice” in the alcohol kept the
marks are not yet recognized liquid cold for nearly four
as legal (brands. The technique hours.
was developed at Washington Students in the class held
State University by Dr. Keith the animals in a standing posi-
Farrdl, U.S. Department of tion and clipped the hair at
Agriculture veterinarian. the site of the brand. A stand-
Unlike the results of hot iron ard large animal clipper will
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not clip the heir clon enough, no pain to the branded ant*
Dr. Loffel found. mal, Dr. Ferguson says.
Warm alcohol was used to Several Maryland dairymen
wet the animal's skin, and the and livestock producers have
branding iron chilled to ap> already marked their entire
proximately 180 degrees below breeding herds by the freeze
freezing in the alcohol and dry branding method. The brand
ke was held against the appears to be permanent, pain*
akin for ebout 25 seconds, less, end is easily read from a
There is no smoke from sear* considerable distance whether
ing hair or skin as with hot the animal's hair is long or
iron branding, and apparently short, Dr. Ferguson says.
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