I noticed that I couldn't remove the Cattle Ranch brand from any of my cows or heifers, and found in testing that the bulls' brands were removable. I've copied the method used for bulls over the presumably much older method used for cows and heifers, and all works properly. I searched for any other instances of the old method elsewhere in the code, just in case there were other remnants, but they all occur in datatypeCleanup to handle even older brand objects.
Currently, BC does not seem to convert the outdated format of brand that the Cattle Ranch was applying into the current format - maybe because all the old-format brands were supposed to have been caught in earlier patches. Might be a task for someone more comfortable with writing BC patches.
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