C.R.S. Section 35-43-129
Branding of calves required

  • exceptions

(1)

It is unlawful for any person, company, or corporation to sell, offer for sale, slaughter, or move, either within the state or to a destination outside of Colorado, any calf under weaning age that is not branded with a Colorado recorded brand of the owner of the mother cow. A brand upon any calf shall be past the peeling state at the time that a calf is sold, offered for sale, slaughtered, or moved, except in the following cases:

(a)

When the calf is accompanied by its branded ownership-proven mother;

(b)

When the calf is accompanied by a current brand certificate issued by a duly authorized Colorado brand inspector after inspection at a time when such calf is with its branded ownership-proven mother;

(c)

When the calf is a registered purebred breed or pure dairy breed, but this exception shall not apply to a crossbred calf.

(2)

Any person, company, or corporation whose principal operation consists of feeding cattle for slaughter or operating a dairy may apply to the state board of stock inspection commissioners for a permit authorizing such person, company, or corporation to sell or offer for sale a calf under ten days old, which was born at the dairy or in the feed lot, without meeting the requirements of subsection (1) of this section. Such application shall be accompanied by a description of the operation. Upon determining that the applicant is qualified, the board shall issue a numbered permit to the applicant. Any calf under ten days old which is sold or offered for sale shall have affixed an eartag, supplied by the board, which bears the applicant’s permit number. A calf sold under the provisions of this subsection (2) shall be accompanied by a duly executed bill of sale containing the owner’s permit number and signed by the dairy owner or the feed lot owner.

(3)

If a Colorado brand inspector is called to inspect an unbranded or freshly branded calf with its mother, any mileage expense shall be paid by the owner in addition to any brand inspection fee.

(4)

Any person, company, or corporation who violates any of the provisions of this section commits a class 2 misdemeanor.

(5)

Unbranded calves subject to this article, when found by brand inspectors at public livestock markets or at shipping points, shall be handled as estrays or questionable ownership livestock according to sections 35-43-118 and 35-53-107.

Source: Section 35-43-129 — Branding of calves required - exceptions, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-35.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

35‑43‑101
Brands on livestock - evidence 35‑43‑102
Branding - evidence of ownership - penalty 35‑43‑103
Earmarks 35‑43‑104
Brand distinctions - recording office 35‑43‑105
Fee to record brands - unlawful use - penalty 35‑43‑106
Certified copy of brand - fee 35‑43‑107
Recording by county clerk and recorder 35‑43‑108
Brand book 35‑43‑109
Brands personal property - recording by board - rules - effect 35‑43‑110
Proof of ownership - evidence 35‑43‑111
Earmarking sheep and hogs 35‑43‑112
Other animals - earmarks 35‑43‑113
Publication of brands and transfers 35‑43‑114
Fees - disposition - report 35‑43‑115
Assessment of brands - rules 35‑43‑115.5
Abandoned brands - procedure - sale - proceeds 35‑43‑116
Wrongful branding - penalty 35‑43‑117
Use of false brand - damages 35‑43‑118
Maverick defined - branding penalty 35‑43‑119
Stock mixed with drove - penalty 35‑43‑120
Trespassing on lands - injuring resident - penalty 35‑43‑123
Thoroughbred rams must be herded 35‑43‑124
Fines paid into school fund 35‑43‑125
No hogs to run at large 35‑43‑126
Dog worrying stock 35‑43‑127
Skinning carcass without right 35‑43‑128
Theft of certain animals - penalty 35‑43‑129
Branding of calves required - exceptions 35‑43‑130
Cattle in feedlots 35‑43‑201
Definitions 35‑43‑202
Brand inspections - custom processing houses - packing plants - feedlots - acceptable forms of evidence - rules 35‑43‑203
Requirements for slaughterer business 35‑43‑204
Investigations 35‑43‑205
Exemption - limitation 35‑43‑206
Records - hides - open to public view 35‑43‑207
Sales by persons other than slaughterers - requirements 35‑43‑208
Person killing for own use 35‑43‑209
When hides admitted as evidence 35‑43‑210
Inspection of hide 35‑43‑211
Grounds for search warrant 35‑43‑212
Violations - penalties 35‑43‑213
Brand inspection - certificate - evidence
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 35-43-129’s source at colorado​.gov