Some of my family owns cow pastures. It’s cool to go out there on a golf cart, and feed the cows a plastic bin full of bread and oranges.
Of coarse I never been around that many cows before. My family has small plots near orange and strawberry fields.
In Florida the mushrooms that grow on cow dung after a rain storm can be psychedelic, but I never been stupid enough to sneak around inside a cow enclosure, they’ll sense you’re nervous and treat you like a threat. Also mushrooms are hard to identify.
Branding probably sucks, but there isn’t much of a better way to protect the animal from theft.