Texas Agriculture Code - AGRIC § 163.065. Branding and Handling of Diseased Cattle

(1) furnish the owner of the animal with written data showing that the animal is infected;

(2) fire brand the animal on the left jaw with the letter “B”;

(3) place an approved, numbered identification on the animal;  and

(4) report the identification number in writing to the commission.

(1) quarantines;

(2) the manner, method, and system of disposing of reactor cattle;

(3) the testing and retesting of the herd;  or

(4) other measures, such as quarantine only, where the animals from the herd are sold exclusively for slaughter and where the commission's rules are in compliance with the current requirements of the Brucellosis Eradication Uniform Methods and Rules of the cooperative state-federal brucellosis eradication program.