[Uplifting music] This weekend is th biggest event of the year for us It's really a way to have all of our ducks in a row and make sure once we let the cattle out on much bigger pastures, they have all of their shots, they have all the legal things like their branding.

Today at the branding event, we have to make sure they get a second vaccination.

We also have to castrate the bulls.

And then they also do the branding.

We have all the cowboys we can get.

And it' usually a lot more than we need, And that's sort o how the renting community works.

They often come in and they they all help give a hand.

So Patrick and Megan often attend other neighboring ranches, brandings as well, and help them out.

[Horse neighs] We all separate and go kind of in a U-shape.

We'll get the corners of the pastures and all work in together like a big fishnet.

We try and kind of round them together or push them into a corner, into a fence and run them down the fence to get them into the corrals where they need to go.

In the state of Colorado, you're required to brand the cattle before you ship them off to be sold.

We gathered half the herd in the first day into the corrals, and then people come in on their horses and they separate the moms from the babies, and the moms go out and kind of get to just a free babysitter day.

And the babies go down and around.

They get in this pin an everybody ropes one at a time.

They drag the cow or the calf.

I mean, to where they get branded.

The horses here are necessary and essential.

Today som cows, pushed through the fence.

And while we were eating, some people noticed and they jump on their horses and blast through the gate an go back over and run them down.

I think somebody was in the canyon and they had to catch one and put it in the back and then drive it down.

Do you have a space in the back Its always unpredictabl when youre working with animals We knocked it out.

We got everybody branded in a two day period.