On behalf of my family I would like to extend a huge thankyou to everyone that helped us brand calves this past Saturday!! 150 calves were branded, vaccinated, tagged and set out to pasture. Thank you so much everyone, we couldn’t do it without you!!

We brand our cows to protect them from theft. Our brand L over backwards G is a registered brand with the brand inspection agency. When our cattle are taken to market, a brand inspector will check to make sure the paperwork backs up ownership of the cattle. Since we send our pairs up to pasture for the summer every year, which is about 3 hours away, its necessary for us to brand our calves. We vaccinate the calves with 3 different vaccines to keep them healthy while they are knee-deep in pasture so they can get fat worry free, and tag them with their first yellow CCIA tag (another great form of identification!).  The process takes about 3-5 minutes per calf and afterwards he is reunited with his mom and they trek back out to pasture!

I roped all day, along with our family friends Cliff Larsen, Ian Harvie & Bryson Jones but snuck off during the last pen of the day to grab my camera for some candids!!

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” 
― Masanobu Fukuoka