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Farm and Ranch Brands For Sale!

Below are some cattle ranch brands and illustrations of livestock logos to give you ideas on what we can weld or fabricate for you. The art of reading livestock brands to the inexperienced, resemble hieroglyphics. However to experienced Arizona ranchers, they become a readable language. With practice and an understanding of some important brand terms, the average person can easily acquire basic skills in reading family farm logos and ranch brands. The ability to read these symbols like any other language, follows certain rules. This is referred to as "callin" the brand." Brands are composed of capital letters of the alphabet, numerals, pictures, and characters such as slash / , circle O, half-circle , cross +, _bar, etc, with many combinations and adaptations. Letters can be used singly, joined, or in combinations. They can be upright, XIT, lying down or "lazy," (lazy S) , connected ( V B connected) or combined, (V B combined), reversed, (reverse B), or hanging (V hanging S). Figures or numbers are used in the same way as the letters. Picture brands are usually used alone, for example (ladder) or (rising sun) . There are three accepted rules for reading brands. Read from the left to the right and from top to the bottom as (bar m). When the brand is enclosed, it is read from the outside to the inside as (circle S). The reading of a brand, especially the more complicated ones like U Lazy S Ranch Brand, in one locality or state may not correspond to the way it is read outside Arizona.