Add Branding To Legal Montana Heirship Affidavits Forms For Free

Recording a Brand To record a livestock brand, please complete the enclosed application signed in ink by the applicant or applicants and return it to the Department of Food and Agriculture with the $70.00 recording fee.

You can view the list of current and active brands, listed by county, on our website: . Montana Livestock Brand applications are reviewed in the order they are received. The Dept. of Livestock strives to provide the most current and complete brand information available.

There are various branding methods you can use for your cattle and horses. Those include fire branding, electric brands, and freeze branding. Among these methods, freeze branding is perhaps the most popular these days, because of its simple, safe, and inexpensive in nature.

To be legal and official, you need to register your brand with your state's department of agriculture. To make a brand, you can use any combination of capital letters, numbers and symbols (like circles and hash marks).

Go to your state's brand registration office and ask to see the listing of already registered brands. This will give you some ideas, as well as show you what's no longer available. The brand registration officer will help you in the design process. Choose letters, numbers, or symbols to create your brand.

Freeze branding is one of the best methods of identifying horses. It is the process of using a super cold iron rather than the traditional hot iron method. When done properly, the cold iron destroys the pigment-producing hair color follicles. White hair will outline the brand site once hair growth returns.