artician said:

I did this throughout my whole childhood. Started in the late 70s, before we had the metal chutes, so the adults would have to rope them and wrestle them down like old-school cowboys. I had to watch this just to see if anythings changed. Looked like he had an electric iron, which is new to me (we still used fire last time I did it), and the one, most gruesome thing the video didn't cover was what you did when you got a male calf.
Interesting though. How antiquated of a practice is this anyhow? It was originally used to identify your cattle so no one stole them, but does that still happen??

oritteropo said:

This reminded me of your posts, what with the title and the old fishing boat:



It's called Folksongs and Ballads by Mathieu Vernerie, Pauline Defachelles and Rémy PAUL.

NicoleBee said:

@calvados , you have always had the finger right on my folk music pulse, and this is no exception. <3 *promote