Why We Brand - A Look into the Secretive Life of Montana Ranchers
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- Ranching in Montana is close to the edge of life.
Enter the secretive world of Ranching to learn why they brand.
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I wish you had covered a bit more about they "why" of branding and how it helps us control theft, prevent spread of disease and monitor and control movement of livestock within the state in a way that ranchers and the state can afford. Also why being an open range state is important and how branding plays into that. As a brand inspector for the state of Montana I would bet at least half of my "trouble"/"complaint" calls in the past two years have come from blue state refugees moving into Montana and not understanding that a lot of the underlying reasons they like Montana have to do with how our laws regarding land use and livestock have shaped our state. They want to come in and change everything to be the way it was in the states they are leaving which got to the point they wanted to leave because they voted in laws and law makers who shaped their former states differently from ours. I can't tell you the amount of times I have had to explain "fence out" vs "fence in" to new folks complaining that cows are wrecking the scenery, yard, public land (that they want to enjoy but not let anyone else on now that they are here) etc. I think you did a good job explaining the "why" of vaccinations, worming and antibiotics though.
Thank you for your reply. Probably should be advertising campaign or signed acknowledgement.
If they don’t like how Montanans do things they can move back to the crappy state they left. We don’t want people from “Blue” states moving to Texas. Why? Because they try to turn my beloved Texas into California. They move here and immediately try to tell us how to live. I’ve actually had blue staters come up and try to tell me what all wrong with Texas. My answer, go back where you came from,we don’t want you here and no one forced you to live or move here. Yes, they get offended. They just don’t get it. They didn’t get in California either.
It’s really confounding how people ruin their former home then go somewhere else, tell locals what to do, and ruin that place too. 🤬
I'm sure theres more that a few people who move to Montana not because they did'nt like anything about where they moved from but for the better views and recreation that Montana offers. Many dont give a thought to what the cattle ranchers or any other occupations are doing.
Theft? How does that excuse torture? Do cattle want to be forcibly immobilized and forced to receive a brand? How exactly is any of this beneficial to the animal well being? Many are going to be slaughtered anyway. The animal enters life totally controlled, the animal is punished if too difficult, the animal is forcibly subjugated so it can be harmed with hot iron, it exists a few years more eating food that is naturally unhealthy but makes the animal increase in mass, the animal is injected with steroids, the animal is then slaughtered. But y'all claim its humane. Get the hell out.
The Midwest is a cesspool low intelligence hillbilly small dick energy. F'ing hell. Just look at this guy.
Old Cowboy here. You do a fine job and the people who don't know where there food comes from will never understand unfortunately. This is awesome very real footage thanks for your hard work to keep the industry alive.
This video might be difficult for some people to handle, but it’s a significant element of Cattle management that is essential.
Lol, bc most of people in their world keeps them going bk to Taco Bell
I understand bc it doesn’t hurt.
I’m an Over the Road trucker and one of my favorite runs is going thru Montana. I find it one of the most beautiful states in the country. I see a lot of pasture and cattle. It’s great to see a video detailing the how’s, why’s and activities of taking care of cattle. Thanks for the efforts of filming and showing the rest of us what you and your fellow ranchers do.
This should be a television show! It's very educational and insightful! Thanks for taking the time to video tape your life style!
I absolutely love your videos. Our family had a large cattle farm in Havre for over 100 years and these take me back. Keep up the great work
Great content and appreciate all their hard work. Glad I found your channel today.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Love it. I worked on a cattle farm that my family rented the house on for a year. I had the opportunity to tend to the calves before they were let out into the pasture, but I never had the chance to help with the branding, or to witness, so this was pretty educational for me. Thank you very much for teaching us.
Thank you for doing this. I’m learning a great deal about ranching, and you are busting a lot of rumors and myths I’ve read online. You make understanding everything very easy. Thanks a lot.
Your videos is fantastic. As a farmer myself you are doing a wonderful job explaining how we work cattle. We used to feed cattle also. Great Job
You have done an excellent job of explaining the process of branding and why you have to medicate the cattle/calves.
I have friends that ranch in eastern Montana. I love visiting there. Montana is always in my heart.
Great video!...I got to brand once at my best friends uncles place in the Sweetgrass Hills in the mid 80's and had the 'crappy' job....used 4 wheelers instead of horses...the process was done late spring so they were a little bigger and more 'fun' to handle 😄
Everything starts much earlier in the morning. Milking at 5am? Up at 3:30, eat something, get down in the pasture by 4-ish, get the cows up from being "frozen to the ground" in -40° weather and into the milking barn to be milked at 5. Then getthe cows back into the pasture, "clean" the barn, feed the cattle and then "rest" while you drive a tractor around all day. Then get the cows back up to the milking barn at 5pm, rinse and repeat.
That kid mentioned "White fish" (Mt) and that's where u worked on the dairy. That brings back memories.
I remember round-up time as a kid, after all the chaos, branding, cutting horns and getting "gut punched" by a frisky calf who thinks it can run right through you (i was a big kid, they didn't get by me) and 12-1 o'clock came around, it was chow time. There was always a big pot of the best baked beans you ever ate (not just because we were hungry), fesh biscuits, bacon, ham, etc., etc., and it was the best time ever. Kids today, especially urban kids, just will never understand or know what they're missing.
Love the white faced cattle. At the beginning when it was a view of all going to corral, "God makes the cattle on a thousand hills" would have been a neat song to add. Enjoy your channel with clean language. Also enjoy the view of the Montana hillside.
Your "education"-video's, as I should call them, are in my opinion a great tool to help people remember where their food comes from, especially the young generation! Meat doesn't fall out of the air right into the supermarket...??
VERY interesting material!! Keep up the good work!👍🇧🇪(Belgium-Europ)
I'm thinking the animal rights folks go a little crazy viewing your videos LOL. As for the rest of us, we really appreciate this view into the life of the families that feed this nation. Thanks for sharing this!
From what you guys would call a Kentucky Hillbilly :) I have been watching the videos and find it all very interesting . Does that mean I want to rush up to Montana and start ranching ... Nope . but what I like best about this video was the people , How it seemed like one big family . everyone knew their job and could joke about it , though they are very serious in the work they do . Awesome video .
Branding season is my favorite time of year. My wife and I don’t have a table like this outfit does, so we rope and drag. We have done a couple with neighbors that have table, and it is so much easier!
You are doing an excellent job with the videos
Branding is more than burning hair. It is essential but it is a 2nd - 3rd degree burn of the hide. You are doing a great job of explaining ranch life & function.
Long comment here but for the correct reasons. My Grandfather and his father were both Veterinarians. They both practiced small and large animal science from 1900 until they both passed with my Grandpa in 1990. My grandpa wanted to fight in WWII but was denied so he could be USDA inspector for food safety for the troops serving. In 1942 he found a large outbreak of Anthrax in Northern Alabama. The worst day of his career. He ordered 5000 head of cattle to be destroyed but it saved lives of our troops. The brands used were instrumental in making sure only cattle possibly infected were put down.
Later he again worked for the USDA in greater Peoria IL as an inspector for Cattle and Hogs. Starting at the age of 7 he would take me to area slaughter houses so I knew where my McDonalds hamburger and hot dog from Oscar Mayer came from. He loved animals but also understood that we as humans eat meat. I get that many hate that. His job was to make sure it is safe.
Trinity! I learned more from your videos as ranching goes in the past 3 weeks than I did in 59 years previously. My Grandpa and Great Grandpa would of been your friends. By the way? Road a horse 2 times in my life. Both were not good. Born and raised a city boy in Chicago after the fact. I appreciate your thoughtful concern for all of your subject matter! Keep Montana Beautiful!
Really enjoy your videos. Learn something ever time. Really the horses.
I really appreciate your videos 😊
Man I miss branding season its such a great time
These are the ranch-humor days I just love! No matter where you go in the whole process, you'll find some kind of ranching horseplay and teasing going on. And poop.... there's always LOTS of getting pooped on. LOL!
Doing an RXCELLENT JOB !!
Absolutely love your content brother. Keep up the good work man.
great video. educational, entertaining and just plain fun
you are doing a very good job, very good content
I like your way of presentation ! Keep it up ! Just a
Yellowstone addict
Excellent video
Iv been seeing alot of rancher's using cold branding. Pretty interesting to see new technology at work.....thanks for sharing ...
I so enjoy your videos . Thank you
Love this content
This was a great video. 👏 I loved seeing my family, too 💛 Jennilee is my cousin. 💛
Pretty sure I saw Jim in there, too 🙂
Well, what do ya know? Jennilee did such a good job on camera. She’s a natural.
@@LifeintheWest She was Miss Broadwater County at least once. That’s a lot of eyes 😉 Plus, she has the best smile. So much joy in her heart.
Like these kinds of videos cause I could pick up some pointers for my herd
Thanks!
I have never seen this done before. It's very interesting. I must say even cool.
Never new there was a shoot that would spin like that. I thought they all were treated the same when it came to branding. I have been around cows but small herds. They never got branding. Tagged, wormed and banding I know that stuff.
Love it! From another cattle raiser!
I spend enough time watching,,, you must be doing something right!😊
Like your vidios,always wanted to live in montana.
Great video,thank you.
Where are you going to find a better bunch of friends and neighbors. Why watch what the idiots in the news and in Washington are talking about- when you can watch and follow this kind of content. Very well documented!
Who among us would not take good care of our pets? Well, we would always take care of them. Vet checks, microchips, grooming, careful breeding to avoid physical deformities, all these things go into taking good care of fancy dogs and cats.
How about a vegetable garden? We'd want to put the best fertilizer and pest control into that garden so we'd have the best, tastiest veggies.
This is why they do what they do with these cattle. After generations of experience, years of research, and lots of care and compassion, these cattle are being taken care of in the most humane, efficient manner these cattle-people know.
Good stuff here. People need to quit being so soft.
Good content
I would so love to be apart of something like this I always thought I would really love to be a rancher like this ever since I was I child
Hell yeah keep doing this I love it
Love your videos! Do you have a Fb page to share your video’s? I tried to copy and paste onto my page but wasn’t successful…..the world needs to see this and understand where their food comes from! Thanks, again , for highlighting the people who steward and feed the world.❤️🙏🏻🐂🇺🇸
Go back under the video n scroll left to right then click on the share button and then you can share it to FB, messenger or even share in a text messenge.
Enjoy this
Thanks 😊
You are very welcome.
I had a horse years ago that also could hop along with hobbles. It was funny to watch him. 👍🤪
I don’t know if it’s necessarily “secretive” - I think ranching is mysterious to lots of people because they live in a world where they decide they know more than they do and write their own narratives instead of going out into this very amazing and fun lifestyle from their dull life of shopping malls and track houses.
How many unit processed
Yeah I know how and why you knew it I worked on a cattle ranch in the late sixties early seventies
Brother that Damn Hurt Me just seeing his Boys as my Doctor called them today for my yearly Physical loll
How often do you have to re-register your brand?
Hello I have a son that lives in Great Falls, are you near that area.
6:18 Comment! 😁
Can we come visit???
Let people look at how healthy this Group of livestock that are being well taken care of versus versus organic farms go look at their livestock
Ill watch ..
But honestly almost 20 yrs ago I worked at a large Alberta feedlot...
Saw a pile of horrible sloppy illegible brands ...
The staff said that branding is a social activity ..really unecessary
everybody does it a little different but everybody starts early, works hard, and lasts all day. This is why country kids do more before noon than city kids, ya don't get any headin and healin practice with a chute
Why is this so hard to accept? These guys are the backbone of the country. They're responsible for getting food into the mouths of families across the country. I would like to see an activist step into the shoes of a rancher and see how well they manage.
How do u heal the brand marks? I mean,it’s gonna leave a burn on the animal right,so do u like help it heal or make sure it don’t get infected etc?
With today's technology, you would think we could move beyond branding.
We haven’t moved past going to the doctor or the dentist either. Its just a part of life we have to endure.
that's different and one has nothing to do with the other.
@@tomlee7651 I’d ask, what’s your solution and how much more do you want to pay for beef? Shall we laser etch them?
In most western states, branding is required by law as a permanent form of identification.
@@jadam-2024 Great question. His response shows how our society doesn’t like to gather information to draw conclusions.
Very subtle
Ranchers are paying 300%-400% more for hay now because the U.S. is shipping it to the Chinese.
Thank you for your video!
It seems like several generations are removed from having an understanding of what is required for food to be ready for purchase at the grocery store, or be on a menu at a restaurant.
I worked on several ranches in New Mexico and Texas and always enjoyed branding season. Everyone called it “neighboring”, when they came to help us and we went to help them work cattle. It was a lot of fun and kind of like a big reunion.
Everyone was careful to work the cattle nice and easy, those cattle are the ranchers livelihood and if you handled them roughly you wouldn’t get any help the next year at your branding, nor be I invited back to anyone else’s.
I spent a bunch of time on my uncle’s ranch and branding time was always one of my favorite times. I was never the best roper, but got to do some. I loved slowly working my way through cattle on horseback to heel a calf. My other favorite job was building a fire for the irons. Great memories! Here’s to all ranchers everywhere! 🍻
Those are always great memories. It keeps us close to the earth and our food. Thanks for watching! 😁
@@LifeintheWest You’re absolutely welcome and keep up the great work.
@@nmelkhunter1 I will certainly try. 😁
I think some producers (poultry, pork,..)use antibiotics as a preventative and not as a cure. I’m not a proponent of unnecessary chemicals being given to livestock on a regular basis to make sure the animals don’t get sick. That’s why I raise my own cattle, poultry and soon pork. I’m glad you posted this video….thanks Trinity.
Yes. I believe they do that with chickens at least.
They do a feed through of medicated feed early with poultry to help increase size quickly. However, there is a Hold Over period for any consumable animal that has been given antibiotics. So the Poultry folks do it early to get them big. Now with hogs and cattle the Last thing we want is a sick animal. The cost of the antibiotics, the time taken managing their care and the Hold Over period means money out of our pocket. We can get Hogs and Cattle to grow better by giving them better nutrition and appropriate vitamins and parasite control.
To me it’s definitely difficult to watch the branding but I understand the why behind it. Montana looks like the most beautiful place in US and would love to visit one day and experience it in real life instead of a screen. Love your videos and how you explain everything ❤
Its just like a tattoo, just like tagging them in the ear is like a piercing because thats what it really feels like to em it don't really hurt em at all but i understand why people find it difficult to watch
love what your doing... more folk need to see where their food comes from and how much we care for the cattle before they are sold... all the late night setting up with a new born in a blizzard to see he warms up and gets that so important first milk
Thank you for the videos and all of your hard work!!
Thanks to ranchers and farmers, people have the luxury of going to a grocery store to buy hamburger and fresh vegetables. It’s really sad that people don’t truly understand or appreciate where our food comes from.
Now they want to push us to eat BUGS instead… no thank you!
Hopefully more people will see videos like this and give their support and appreciation.
I enjoy your videos very much. I was raised around Western everything. Love the ranching, the horseback riding, the history behind the cattle ranching all of it. BUT BEST of all was the camping trip with your family. What a treat to watch, if all Americans could get along that well, we would not have the problems we have now... Thanks for the great videos God Bless.
Oh the memories! My former father in law, and family had several thousand acres in eastern Oregon with a large commercial herd, and smaller pure bred herd. I have done all this, best times of my life!
Dear Trnity, thank you for explaining our industry in such a truthful way. You are a credit to our life style. Your filming is nicely done too. I live in CO. We mostly do hay, but have 20 head too. Gratefully Val H
This is very informative. Thank you. Both my grandparent sets had some acres in Oklahoma. I spent 6 years of my life on the Tilbury's. They had just shy of 160 acres. They wanted it to be essentially a Wilde nature filled space for their family to enjoy. There were hills, gullies, a pond, and bottom land. You could find rose rocks, arrow heads, and trees you could climb. The water was well water and the best tasting stuf! There were paper shell and Native pecans. They were growing all over the bottom land, some were 100 years old. There were also Wilde plums, Possum grapes, black walnut, and persimmon trees. There was so much I wanted to do with that property. It wasn't in the stars. I love it here in Montana just the way it is. Housing could be more affordable is my only complaint, obviously Not the fault of the locals here.
I love these true life stories!! I wish I could hang out on a ranch to experience their life.
Same, I got to live in a nature oasis fo a while, but not ranching. I have been very curious. My health won't let me try it now.
I like how you showed the “community” of coming together to get the big jobs done. I am so grateful for men and women who work so hard to keep us fed. Ranchers and farmers are often very misunderstood! Thanks for you view into this world. So many are so far from the food source and have little understanding of the how and why things are done.
I’ve read through some comments and ppl are just stupid. This isn’t Cruelty to animals. Most ppl live in the city or town and the way the tie up their dogs and cats and birds is animal cruelty
Yeah. Dogs are born to run at great lengths. Not tied to 6 foot leashes.
I enjoyed the video. I like buying organic produce and meat. A while ago I realized though: if I don't grow it, I don't know it. I decided that if it taste better I'll buy it. Words and labels are deceptive, and we never really know what is in our food... I live in Denver and noticed you all were already wearing jackets. Gotta love the variety in the vastness that is the U.S.A.
Yes I want to see more of this
You’re doing a good job, I guess. Never being on a ranch or around cattle I claim ignorance
You are helping me not to be so ignorant
Thank you
Why do you have to hot brand cows? Why can't you freeze brand them like ppl do with horses? Freeze branding looks ALOT less painful. Holding a cow down and burning them like that looks and sounds like torture. There has to be a more humane way to do this....
Those poor calves choke the shit out of themselves because they're trying to get away from the horse. Aww so sad.
Tons O' Fun! For me anyway. I love your videos. Somehow, I keep tripping over these heads up you keep giving. Explaining to people about what is going on. Not sure why this floors me that people need to hear this. I'm the dummy for thinking that most people have common sense. Oops!! There. I said it. If a person watches these videos and needs to be told that the ranchers are not hurting the animals, wow. Just wow!
If they are sick they need antibiotics to help them just like if we get sick. They been treating animals this way forever now for some stupid reason someone came up with its bad. Ranchers have to make money to survive and keeping the cows healthy and growing is the only way.
Thank you . I ain't going to lie I am a city raised , but I love and wish I could live like u . This is first time I have ever seen how branding is done . I appreciate the education .
OMG, is that where my prime rib and bubba burgers come from? 😉
Ps. Thanks!
But why do you brand them instead of tagging them? Wouldn't that be faster and less stressful for the animals?
Great video. Very informative specially for people not associated with cattle and ranching. Would love to see more in depth videos on branding and the process of looking after them and doctoring them.
You are a fabulous videographer documentary professional. Thank you so much for informing the world of the real world ranching in the USA. Mucho Gracias
I appreciate you explaining in details the life and routines of ranching. Enjoyed
Great video. Why do you brand and tag the calves? Is branding for external purposes (e.g., to prevent theft) and tagging is for internal purposes (e.g., to track calves to their mothers, etc.)? Thanks for the videos. They are great.
Polled calves are the best one less step. If you don't understand your from the city LOL Been there, seen it, done it and have been sprayed by it. Great content for all ages.
Just found your channel and your doing a great job explaining. It would be hard to show this side of ranching with all the backlash from keyboard worriers in the world these days but i think your doing a great thing with these videos explaining it all.
The unfortunate part about banding the nuts is that nobody is able to enjoy eating Rocky Mountain Oysters
AKA prairie oysters.
Yes, I hit the "Subscribe" button and the bell. I like these videos very much. As a flat country horseman, it's interesting for me to see how things are actually done, and not like on TV.
You Sir Are Doing the very best thing these days and that’s exploring every detail so everyone who is of faint of heart hopefully can grasps just how that Steak gets to the Plate.
If I would have kept looking through your channel I would have come across this video explaining. Branding but still have questions