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Regrown hair over brands?
My pony's brands are no longer visible. She's arab warmblood and her brands were visible when she was purchased as a yearling (seen pics where they're visible) and they're on her papers (she does have them). She's 6 now and you cannot see them, she has a short coat and she's always rugged up with a stable light during the winter so she doesn't grow a winter coat (I've even clipped them and they aren't visible). Her 2 angloarab sister's are the same and another arab mare at our stables, they are branded but you cannot see them. Does anyone know if this is because of a particular type of branding or what? Anyone know a horse like this?
Shes a dark dark bay and her sisters are chestnut
Shes a dark dark bay and her sisters are chestnut
It's not an issue of clipping over the brand, her hair isn't covering the brand, it's like the brand just ISN'T THERE anymore
3 Answers
- LKLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, I've never heard of it (here's the ugliest brand I've ever seen, on an age-old mustang mare: she was older than the hills she wandered and had white hairs all over her, yet the horrible brand was very visible http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs191.... ), but I must say CONGRATULATIONS and what a fantastic feat!
I'm happy for you =) You must have done something right!
- 1 decade ago
I've seen some of the older TB broodmares at the Karaka sales like that and they just shave back the hair over the brands to read them, it does happen I think it has to do with the age of the horse, some of those broodies were pretty damn old
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
What color is she? If the horse is a lighter color (white, gray, cremello, palomino, etc) and the horse is freeze-branded, then yes, these brands do have a tendency to disappear over time on light colored horses. Hot branding doesn't fade on any horse, which is why some prefer it, but freeze branding is preferred for dark horses because it's painless.
