Meaning of bangtail muster | Babel Free

Definitions

A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.

Australia

Examples

“There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand.”

“Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count⟳ of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count⟳.”

“A bangtail muster was a count⟳ of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have⟳ its tail cropped to show⟳ it had been counted.”

“There was, for example, a rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats, from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901-02.”

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