Branding iron
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A branding iron is used for branding, pressing a heated metal shape against an object or livestock with the intention of leaving an identifying mark.
Branding irons from the Grant–Kohrs Ranch, c. 1910s.
Native slave branding during the Spanish colonization of the Americas
Livestock branding
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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
Branding iron
…A branding iron is used for branding, pressing a heated metal shape against an object or livestock with the intention of leaving an identifying mark. The history of branding is very much…
A young steer is being branded with an electric branding iron and cut to make an earmark.
Branding cattle in Mexico, 1870.
Branding calves in Colorado, c. 1900. Photochrom print
Hot iron horse branding, Spain