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If this is the Travis from the Old Yeller movie , he was cutting a notch or notches in the pigs ear or ears . Back when there was still open range ( 'till the late 1940's in Fla , don't know about Texas ) farmers had a mark that they used to mark pigs from their sows ( so many notches in right or left , top or bottom inside or outside ) . Pigs that were off the teat but not butcher size ( shoats ) and unmarked were fair game to who ever marked them first .

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