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    Thoughts on branding weanlings

    Hi, I am taking my colt, born April this year to a BWP Kuering and I am undecided if he scores well enough to have him branded. I have never had an experience of branding and wonder what people's thought are? My gut feel is not to put him through this but I have heard differing stories about how painful, memorable it is for the horse.
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    ISR/OLDNA brands. It's very fast and not a big deal. I prefer to have my foals branded.
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      I've had mares and foals branded. All were fine and stood quietly before and after being branded. I imagine it stings for a few hours and then it gets itchy. After a day or two, no more itching.

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        Some jump, most do not. They all quiet down immediately even if they jump. I MUCH prefer to get them branded than not. If not, you have no idea if they are registered horses or grade horses.
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          It's just his first time going any where and I don't want him to have any bad experience or memories, I guess by the sound of it they don't seem to worry too much.

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            Horses bite each other all the time. I know I've been bitten and it hurts like h*ll for days! It can't be any worse than what trouble that they get themselves into on any day. They're pretty tough. At least their skin is tougher than mine!

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              I know that feeling I was bitten last year by my OTTB, he bit clean through to the bone on my left arm, needed 3 layers of stitches but thankfully no muscle damage....

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                Originally posted by JackieG View Post
                It's just his first time going any where and I don't want him to have any bad experience or memories, I guess by the sound of it they don't seem to worry too much.
                There's no rule saying you must have your foal branded. If you aren't comfortable having him branded then don't have it done, if you are then go for it. There's no pressure at breed inspections to have it done. Most people do but it's no big deal if you don't. If this is his first time going out the whole day will be a new experience for him and I doubt he's going to remember that one incident and think "heck I'm not going out with her again" lol!

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                  comparing a severe burn injury from a branding to a horse bite seems ridiculous to me. Burn injuries hurt worse than any other type of injury, for a much longer time. Just because horses don't run around shrieking for days afterwards doesn't mean they aren't suffering. Most animals try very hard to hide their pain.

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                    I have had foals branded at inspections for years, and without exception, none of them seem to care much. I don't consider it a severe burn injury, as they pretty much just stand there and then walk off when asked. If you don't want to do it, don't, but I have never had a foal react to as as though it is a life-altering event.
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                      Originally posted by wendy View Post
                      comparing a severe burn injury from a branding to a horse bite seems ridiculous to me.
                      A severe burn injury distorts and melts not only the top layers of skin but underlayers of skin too. Branding is a quick touch of heat, not deep and penetrating enough to melt the lower layers of skin.

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                        We have had 4 branded over the years. None of our 4 seemed to mind much. The last baby we had branded was OLDNA and she could have cared less. Actually had to kind of wake her up afterwards to walk off. After they branded her they sprayed something similar to human dermoplast on it as they said it would probably itch a bit and they didn't want her rubbing it. She did rub at it a bit about a week later as a little skin peeled but other then that it didn't seem to bug her.

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                          If it's freeze branding then it's not a big deal at all at any age. Hot branding does hurt but the foal would be sedated and hopefully not associate the trailer with getting branded.

                          A brand of any kind is a fantastic recovery aid in the event your horse is lost or stolen.

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                            Originally posted by SLW View Post
                            If it's freeze branding then it's not a big deal at all at any age. Hot branding does hurt but the foal would be sedated and hopefully not associate the trailer with getting branded.

                            A brand of any kind is a fantastic recovery aid in the event your horse is lost or stolen.
                            Foals aren't sedated for branding and they stand there anyway.

                            The only time I have ever had a severe reaction to branding was a yearling who was freeze branded. Clearly freeze branding isn't a totally innocuous event.
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                              Lets stick a hot brand to a human and they can tell us whether it hurts or not...
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                                you can look up studies done on measuring biochemical changes associated with experiencing severe pain in animals being hot- and cold- branded. It definitely does hurt. A lot. For a long time afterwards. Cold better than hot though.

                                I once bumped my bare leg against a very hot BBQ. The pain was so bad it would wake me up at night for weeks. Healed clean, no scar. A burn bad enough to leave a visible, permanent scar isn't a severe burn injury?

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                                  I'm very happy that GOV now exclusively microchips in the US. A horse was even found on a feedlot 2 years ago and new papers issued after the microchip number was confirmed.
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                                    I had my foal branded. Didn't bother her a bit. It's not like when you see cattle being branded where they are held down and the brand is applied for a long time. You just walk the horse by, they quickly zap them, you walk off.
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                                      Having recovered from a severe burn (scars to prove it) the brand they use at the inspections is not bad at all. I won't touch the microchip debate with a 10ft pole having been on the recent receiving end of a tirade for it. Branding they do at the inspections is not bad and scientifically speaking horse's skin is much thicker than ours and their mind processes the pain just as ours do. If you want it done then do it if not don't. If I was shopping for a warmblood however I would not buy one that is not branded, not even from a top breeder. That brand is a way for the horse to be identified and as another person stated its a way to locate them should they be lost or stolen.

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                                      What serious breeder would think that a horse at that performance level is push button? Even so, that's still a lot of buttons to push.

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                                        wait how does it stop theft? I would get mine done simply as I like the 'snob appeal' of it. But I can't say I would worry about increased theft with out it. (actually if I was off stealing a horse a nifty brand on its butt might be a bit of an incentive to stick it on a trailer)

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