freeze brand???

No your right justin, I just like brands better that's all. It definitely takes longer than a minute to brand each dog. For the iron to frost high enough on the rod to have the brand cold enough and then holdin the brand to each ham for 25 sec then repeat on other ham and then repeat on each dog. Brands are just cleaner in my opinion. I would for sure say if your wanting to tattoo puppies ears before they were sent out to other homes that would be beneficial for later identifying because you can't brand a puppie as it will look ridiculous when it grows up. I agree with that; however, I personally don't keep enough dogs on my yard to be selling grown dogs or even trade em. What I have is what I have. If they work they stay if they don't they bite some lead. And then if I'm down to where I need pups I will raise a litter to get my numbers where I need them to be. My ideal number is six grown dogs, 2 strings of three dogs. For that matter brands are better for me because theft reasons I can look at my dogs without having to look at a brand or a tattoo and tell if they are mine or not but if someone happened to get there hands on one of my dogs ( more than likely you gunna be dog bit) there is no question as we are wearing the same brand. Can't really argue that. I typically don't sell pups so tattoos aren't really beneficial to me.