It's Texas, his brands are registered, be hard to sell at auction, but they don't check brands at rendering plants from what he said. They cut lock, drove in, used his loading pens to load them on trailer. They had horses.
There's no statewide brand registration in Texas. It's by county.
And no state law to say the cattle have to be inspected before being sold.
They could drive them 300 miles away and run them through the sale ring with all expectation of getting away with it.
