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Photo Credits
Photographs on this site are used under Creative Commons or public domain licenses. Cropping and color overlays have been applied.
- Black Angus cattle in pasture (home page): Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Red and black Angus cattle: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Hereford cattle in a ranch corral: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Yearling bulls at a gate, South Dakota: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cattle crush in a field: geograph.org.uk contributor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Portable cattle yards: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hereford cattle in Quebec: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Squeeze chute and hydraulic levers: USDA Forest Service, public domain
- Cattle in pasture, at fence, rancher at gate: USDA, public domain
Equipment Photo Credits
Equipment photos show a typical example of each type, not the exact model on the page.
- Rancher ear tagging a cow held in a squeeze chute: Loren Kerns, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Hydraulic squeeze chute at a handling facility: USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Beef cattle caught in headgates: Archives of Ontario, OGL-ON, via Wikimedia Commons
- Steer standing on a livestock scale: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Livestock scale at a ranch: Jack E. Boucher, Library of Congress (HABS), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Plug-in electric fence energizer: Auckland War Memorial Museum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Portable battery electric fence energizer: Auckland War Memorial Museum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Solar electric fence charger in a cattle pasture: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cows eating from a round bale feeder: Carl Young, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cattle feeding at a hay ring: Alabama Cooperative Extension, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Heifer at a hay feeder in winter: Patrick Roper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Horse hay feeder in a paddock: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cow drinking from an automatic pasture waterer: Lene (Manisha), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cattle at a pasture drinker: Russel Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Livestock water tank in a field: David Pashley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Livestock water trough: Dave Croker, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Portable cattle yards folded on a trailer: Cgoodwin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons