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- [Chad] A cow, and a calf, and then a yearling stocker.
I'll have pictures up here later on,
pictures of a cow, pictures of,
that way you'll have an idea of what's what.
Like I said, we don't care if it's a 12 year old
or a five year old.
That's probably not your determination.
What you need to know is, it's a cow versus a calf.
Here on the top left is a cow.
Top right is a heifer.
The heifer turns into a cow after she's had the calf.
The calf turns back into a heifer or a bull.
The bull, which is bottom right, is very muscular.
At some point in time, early on his life,
they will castrate him, band him, whatever,
and they may or may not turn him into a steer,
depending upon their purpose.
If it's very muscled up, very strong, very stout,
you know it's a bull.
Kind of like she was talking about earlier,
about the testicles and the way they draw up.
Bulls are, they're gonna hang down.
You'll be able to see them very easily.
These are some colors of 'em.
The one on the right is just a Holstein.
Just a spotted one.
Top left is a red and the bottom is a roan.
And I have some few more pictures, we'll talk about blacks
and black baldies and things like that.
The top picture is Angus, they're black.
If you see black cows, just assume that they're Angus.
There are some few other breeds that are black,
that's not really your determination.
Down there at the bottom is a black baldie,
basically they're a black hided calf with a white face,
white spotted, white mottled, something like that.
Mottled kinda means patchy.
Herefords, everybody should know what those are.
They're just a red body cattle with white face
and white tip tails and white legs.
Now, just because that they have a horn
does not mean that they're a bull, cows can have horns.
Now in the industry, we're trying to get away from the horns
by we're having them cut off
or seared when they're young.
But just because they have a horn does not mean
that they're a bull.
These are what I call more athletic cattle.
We got a Brahman here, they're crosses,
they're longer eared, they got a lot of leather
up around their breast area.
Those cattle with the longer ears tend to be
a little more skittish, a little more wilder.
When you pull in the gate, they head to the other side
of the field.
There on your left side of the screen are Charolais,
basically that's the only white calf that we have.
They're a solid white calf.
And then on the right is a Commercial.
Commercial, that can be any color, mixed, whatever,
you don't ever know, it could be reds, whites, blacks,
roans, anything, just whatever came off the truck
on that time.
If they're all the same color, like this one on the left,
these are Charolais, that could be a very much
of a purebred system.
If they're one on the right, they're just Commercial,
that could be a mix of anything.
Sports cattle, in Mexico they use those
for roping and stuff like that.
We use these for rodeos and things like that.
These can be kinda athletic, too.
Ear tags, we're getting better at this.
Some of them will have their brand or their name
and phone number on them, and they're easy to see.
Some of them like this, it's not much of a tag.
It could be an insecticide tag, I don't really know,
there's no numbers on it, it's hard to see, I don't know.
But these on 'em that has a 16-digit code, those are USDA,
so if you ever see those, if you ever get the chance
to get that close, just recognize that that's USDA
and you cannot move those.
You cannot remove those.
And even these that's got the ranch name and number on 'em,
do not remove those.
I don't know if it's illegal or not,
but the USDA side it is.
When we're talking about brandings, there's basically
two ways, you can freeze brand or hot brand.
Most of these are hot brand styles,
what's more used around here.
But brand location,
if it's on the left hip,
that's different than left side.
That make sense?
If you have it on the left hip, it's different
than the left side.
That's two complete different owners.
They may have the same brand on it,
maybe a rooftop type deal, but if it's on the hip,
that's different than on the side or the shoulder.
The right side is different than the left,
so that's an identification mark that you may want
to be able to know, it's on the left side or right side.
It's like a rooftop or a bar or something like that,
circle-C, whatever.
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