Hat Tips

Hello,

We branded a few days ago. Branding is one of the jobs that you kind of dread, but you kind of love. The two hardest parts of a branding bee are preparing food, and lining up the day.

It begins with lining up a crew. You need several people. But not too many. And not too few. I don’t know which is worse.

First off you need cowboys and cowgirls that can gather the herd and get them in the working pens. You need people that can read a cow or calf’s mind, know when to push them, and know when to ease them along. When you get them corralled, you need people that can separate the cows and ca...