Have heard of one guy charging £3.50 a head and another charging £4 both for 3 numbers. Had a guy recently do 4 numbers for us and holding the irons on for a bit longer to burn the hair off as the cattle are red and hard to see the numbers , he charged us £15 a head, needless to say he won’t be backJust wondered how much people are paying for freeze branding and if anyone is on here is doing it , how long they leave the numbers on etc
Yeah, our brander brings one. Makes a real difference to helping them stand still.From recollection our guy does...
30 seconds on black
60 seconds on white
Go 4 digits, matched to last 4 of ear tag, so useful for testing etc. Never have to cross reference a brand to a tag again.
Anyone here heard of this steel thing you put in a heifers mouth and they chew it, calms them down for branding? Called a pacifier? (Not the Electric)
How many other cattles mouths has it been in? Other farms? Disease?Yeah, our brander brings one. Makes a real difference to helping them stand still.
I leave the number on for 50 seconds with dry ice and 40 with liquid nitrogen.
Keeping the cow still is the secret.
I want to buy one, I heard they're less than a hundred quid , worth it for tidy brands.
But can't find one on line
I've got one....its called a hook drencher.Anyone here heard of this steel thing you put in a heifers mouth and they chew it, calms them down for branding? Called a pacifier? (Not the Electric)
Yea I know wow indeed! Around 60 heifers branded that day so wasn’t that small a number either.Wow - we used to pay £5.50 for 4 numbers/2 lines. We've since added a letter so now we pay £6.50. That includes a dozen red animals per year which are the same price as the black ones.
I thought I was the only one that got cleaned like thatYea I know wow indeed! Around 60 heifers branded that day so wasn’t that small a number either.
Guy that done it reckoned his dry ice and alcohol prices were up that much he needed that, I reckoned he was full of BS which coincidentally is his initials!I thought I was the only one that got cleaned like that