Your posts show both of you are not familiar with ranching. Depending on the size of the ranch, it is easy for someone to dump an extra animal into your herd without you recognizing it for a period of time.
This is why all medium and large ranch outfits use branding or ear tags. Having an extra or one missing will eventually become known. Usually once a quarter or half year depending on the ranch, the rancher will either inventory his herd or need to make some provision for health checks but some never get inventoried until roundup time sometimes a full year later.
Shouldn’t call someone an idiot when you know not what you’re talking about if you get my drift.
50 acres isn’t exactly a wild west ranch...
She has 20 horses and according to the article she is hardly ever there.
Those two don’t go hand in hand. That means someone else is running the ranch and she is still an idiot ...
The horse was there for nearly a YEAR! Not a quarter, not 6 months.
You didn’t see where I’m located. I grew up on a 1500 acre ranch and still maintain a few hundred. Even pulled a few head of cattle for FFA projects in high school that I’ve mentioned through the years here. If you’ll look back through my posts in the past few days, I mentioned having 107 chickens for FFA. I’m sure that will help in your search. I’ve put many an ear tag on, thank you very much. Plastic, green with black numbers which is easier than branding though we do have a brand that’s two letters of our last name. Ran countless through shoots for vaccines - oh, wait, I’m not supposed to know how to do that. Cattle are let to roam, but you still know your animals and you look over them when they follow the truck for their hay - daily. You don’t let high dollar horses roam like cattle and most people would notice if one of their mares had a bit of extra equipment and a different breed. But, ok, you say I’m stupid so I must be. Yep, I’m dumb and don’t know a thing.
Read through the thread and see I really didn’t have to defend my post... if you get my drift.