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Slim I’ve freeze branded a few dogs, horses, and cows. Naturally it a different hold on time for each. I used liquid nitrogen though. Usually on a dog the hold time was about 6-8 seconds depending on how thick the dogs hide was. Getting the hair off is a big deal, where there’s not even any stubble if possible. Then the purest alcohol to clean it. I’d rub it pretty good to get any oils and dead skin of. I made a template out of cardboard that the outer edges of the brand would almost touch so that I could put it up to the animal and move it around to where it fit best and I was going to be able to get the whole brand to make contact. When I figured out where that was I traced around the template with chalk and then took clippers to it. Right before I put the brand to it I would spray it with alcohol again. Making sure the animal can’t squirm or run away from you is huge too because it’s super hard to get the iron back in the same exact spot. When you pull it off, usually the brand will whelp up or raise within a few seconds if I remember correctly. Like I say, that was with the nitrogen though. I have a tank that I would go get nitrogen in but pour some over into a styrofoam cooler to freeze the iron. I cut a slot in the lid for the handle to stick up through and wrapped a towel around the handle where it stuck out to hold the cold in the cooler and keep the nitrogen from evaporating. I’m sure you know but if you hold it too long, the brand will look like a hot brand. It will kill the hair follicles instead of just the pigmentation. That’s what they do on animals that are white usually.
You can on this one that I should’ve rocked the brand around better. Because of the muscle there, it the brand wasn’t held firmly enough against him on one side to take.


This one took better. These were a couple of the first ones I did.


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This pups all look good, I’d feed them. Ya’lls boars seem genetically predisposed to having big teeth, I’ve got one here from down that way and he’s the toothiest one I’ve got. From what I’ve encountered, I see bigger bodies and shorter teeth up here.  That’s not to say they aren’t in the area, I know they are, maybe I’m just catching the dinks.

Teeth is probably 75% age in my opinion. I hunt lots of high pressure areas(this tri-county area is high pressure)  so I feel like we don’t catch many big or toothy hogs. Theres just no big country around here where hogs can be left alone. When we do get around an older boar, he will have some teeth probably.

Pups are growing into them selves. They’ll bay the grown heifers and calves around my house already at 8 weeks. They are little opportunistic predators around the house. Mean as a sack of snakes too. I still have all 5 here.

Freeze branded misty and spoon myself a few weeks ago. Not a clue what I was doing. Had 2 dogs branded years ago. Watched a YouTube video and read a few forums and gave it my best go(dry ice and alcohol)Verdict is still out. Here’s Misty’s, maybe somebody with experience can give me some insight as to how it’s healing. Spoons is a good bit more scabbed up still. I think 3 weeks it’s been now. When i originally did it, I thought spoons would take alright and that I probably didn’t get misty long enough. Today I don’t know lol. I’ll get a picture of spoons brand and the pups tomorrow evening.



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Dang it man, that takes the fun out of it.

This pups all look good, I’d feed them. Ya’lls boars seem genetically predisposed to having big teeth, I’ve got one here from down that way and he’s the toothiest one I’ve got. From what I’ve encountered, I see bigger bodies and shorter teeth up here.  That’s not to say they aren’t in the area, I know they are, maybe I’m just catching the dinks.

Also found out this new honey hole has a high population of poison ivy. Last two times in there I got it on my arms, that stuff makes chiggers feel like a treat.

You got out and the dogs hunted, that’s a win already. Sounds like you’ve got your dogs pretty figured out, like Hondo being a tattletale. It sure is a cheat sheet when you know their tendencies. I don’t blame you for leaving seed.


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Good on ya for slipping out and getting one caught. That tug of war when you are hemmed up isn't much fun. Lol

 Monday was forecast to “not” be that hot, so I figures this was my best chance to get the dogs some woods time. I took them to the spot I’ve been hunting recently, I start walking and dogs are in three different directions doing who knows what. I get them all collected up and going in the right direction.

This place is rough, I can feel the briers slow cutting into my forearms as I push through it. All the dogs are out hunting, even that lazy bum Hondo, so I know the hogs are around somewhere. The ground is dry now, fresh sign is hard to discern, we keep pushing, the dogs keep working still no hog yet.

After a couple hours, 4 of them head out and Dan is off to my left, then I hear barking at about 270 give or take, then the sound of a shoat cracks the air. I start going to them and I see Dan coming, he ran past me straight to the action. I push bush all the way there. They’ve got one hemmed up in some vines and junk, I leg the pig and the three male dogs are playing tug o war with me and I ain’t winning. I maneuver to where I can make the stick and get it done.

On the way out there was a guy there from Texas of all places squirrel hunting. He told me just before we got to the road a group ran right by him, two big sows and a group of smaller ones. I just loaded them up and got out of there, I know they like that area and prefer to leave some seed there and not drive them out of the country.

It’s a great day to be alive.

Sounds like a good little hunt. Those dogs splitting up like that will put you in the hogs. They cover more ground and faster and in this heat of course that’s a good thing.

I have a young male, he’s almost a year exactly. He’s been doing really good and man he knows which end to bite and which one to bark at. So far he’s done everything I can ask for. I’m 90% sure he bayed his own hog but it broke before we got in there. I can tell you goes through the brush after a hog so hard that he knocks chunks of hide off his face. He looks like Rays twin.


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That's pretty strange there. Good boar though.