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Location: Texas | Just curious about this. Does a brand/location of a brand on a horse influence your decision to purchase? Thanks for all your feedback! |
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Yes, absolutely. I don't care how good the horse looks or how well it's bred, if it has a big brand, it's out. It's not just me either, a lot of people I know feel the same. I don't want a fourth of the hip (or shoulder) with someone's "billboard" on it. I really don't mind a normal-looking brand. 
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Location: OH. IO | Nope.not one bit. |
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Location: Idaho |  No no way... if its a nice horse and an ugly brand, nope that will not at all make me second guess a purchase |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have no idea what brands mean. But I personally think they look cool. Lol. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I don't mind at all of there's a brand on any part of the horse, but I AM weary of a certain brand from a past horse I bought and it did not work out well. |
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| Horse's that have multiple brands I will definitely stay away from |
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Location: Oklahoma | We brand all our foals , I personally feel that should be the only brand on a horse , if you raised it , but once they are out of our hands , people do what they want . 
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Location: Texas | Yes and no. My best horse has a huge brand on her right hip. I saw it from the thumbnail picture on her craigslist ad. I knew who the brand belonged to and knew she had good horses, so it actually turned me on to the ad more than anything.
However, for babies or unstarted prospects, I don't like a huge brand. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Hotcat - 2016-08-14 4:06 PM We brand all our foals , I personally feel that should be the only brand on a horse , if you raised it , but once they are out of our hands , people do what they want .
I agree with this. Brands should be simple and tasteful. Not bill board big though or something an artist designs. |
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| If they are branded, wonderful then I don't have to pay to have my brand stamped on them.
Brands distract people from stealing them.
If they go missing, or have to be turned loose due to flood or fire, the brand is proof of ownership. The brand inspector will contact the person who owns the brand. |
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If the brand belongs to someone I dislike heck no.
Big brands are ugly.....anyway you look it they're a scar.
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Location: Oregon | It wouldnt deter me at all if they were what I was looking for. Although my brand is brass knuckles, which I'm sure some people wouldn't like but I only have it on one horse for now and she wont ever go up for sale. It's not huge and most people don't recognize what it is but I figure you'd have to be pretty ballsy to steal her with that branded on her. hahaha  |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | Hotcat - 2016-08-14 5:06 PM
We brand all our foals , I personally feel that should be the only brand on a horse , if you raised it , but once they are out of our hands , people do what they want .
I agree with this. I dislike people who buy and sell after weeks or months and the brand is slapped on everything and I have skipped over horses with one on depending on what the brand was because I know they buy and sell fast. I also like small simple brands if there is one on a horse not ones that take up half + of the hip or shoulder. |
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Location: Great Places Great Faces | Is this a serious question? Idk would you buy an "ugly" horse if it won everything... ? This question just kind of cracked me up... Have we become that vane of a society that a brand can make or break a sale?!?! smh... |
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Location: Texas | Spiked-Kat - 2016-08-14 5:53 PM
Is this a serious question? Idk would you buy an "ugly" horse if it won everything... ? This question just kind of cracked me up... Have we become that vane of a society that a brand can make or break a sale?!?! smh...
Yes, it is a serious question. I saw a post on SM recently regarding folks not buying horses with brands. I found it unusual so figured I'd ask the question to see how prevalent this actually is. |
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| I bought a mare with 3 brands .. That never phased my decision. She's a nice horse & wins for me .. The brands don't bother me at all |
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| I don't mind them but if I or someone I know had a bad experience with a horse with a certain brand I try to stay away. |
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Location: Texas | I could care less if horse has a brand or not. If the horse is what I want and works how I want I would not pass him up just because he had a brand or two or three or ten. Lol. |
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| psaaat - 2016-08-14 6:03 PM
Spiked-Kat - 2016-08-14 5:53 PM
Is this a serious question? Idk would you buy an "ugly" horse if it won everything... ? This question just kind of cracked me up... Have we become that vane of a society that a brand can make or break a sale?!?! smh...
Yes, it is a serious question. I saw a post on SM recently regarding folks not buying horses with brands. I found it unusual so figured I'd ask the question to see how prevalent this actually is.
I personally feel if a person has a problem with the brand we use, they don't deserve a horse we raise. That brand is over 30 years of genetic crossing, up to 5 generations of horses and now 2 generations of people. |
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| I couldnt really care less if a horse has a brand on it if I like the horse. I owned a horse with 5 different brands and She was a great horse. I called her my hippy horse. lol
The only thing I will say, is I don't really like when people who are not trainers, or breeders make their own personal brand and put it on everything they own just because. It just doesn't make sense to me. . . but maybe Im weird? |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | cheryl makofka - 2016-08-14 6:46 PM If they are branded, wonderful then I don't have to pay to have my brand stamped on them. Brands distract people from stealing them. If they go missing, or have to be turned loose due to flood or fire, the brand is proof of ownership. The brand inspector will contact the person who owns the brand.
Yes, this ^^
I prefer brands and could care less if a horse has multiple brands. I'm more interested in having a very easily identifiable way to find one of my horses in case of a fire or hurricane or theft.
And honestly, each to their own, but whether it has a brand or not doesn't make it better or worse running down the alley....so aside from cosmetic issues, I really don't get why anyone would care so much?
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Location: OH | I had a girl that had put a deposit on a colt and it stated in the contract that the foal would be branded---she obviously did not read it. Came time for weaning and we told her she could pick it up once branded and she said she did not want it if it was branded and I said, well, it is not leaving here without a brand. She forfeited her deposit and did not take the foal. Ours is a small brand---just JJ on the hip. Personally, I think the girls situation had changed and she could no longer get the filly and she was looking for an out, because it was very out of character for her. |
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Location: Kansas | No it wouldn't affect my decision. |
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Location: Canada | They way I look at it is someone cared enough about their program (Breeding/training etc) to permanently mark the horse as having been part of that program. Unlike papers that can get lost a brand is a permanent way to say I had a hand in this horse and I'm proud of it.
I personally think well known brands help sell horses. If you go to a rodeo you have no idea how the horses are bred just by the looks of them but if you see 5 or 6 horses that are winning in multiple events with the same brand you're probably going to check out that breeding program.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I like seeing the breeders brand on them, but dont like seeing every tom, dick and harrys brand on a horse that may have gone threw multiple owners. I brand mine with my own brand after I have had them for awhile, if I know for sure that I will be keeping them for the rest of their lives then I brand with my own for reasons of being stolen are getting loose.
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I thought about this and I have owned many horses with brands and one with a huge brand on his butt that was ridiculous but it didn't keep me from buying them. But there is a person that I have a real deep unfondness for and she brands all of her horses and I wouldn't take one of hers for free because of all the negative energy that the brand stands for.
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| It wouldn't affect my decision to purchase a horse at all. |
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Location: Desert Land | SKM - 2016-08-15 4:43 AM
psaaat - 2016-08-14 6:03 PM
Spiked-Kat - 2016-08-14 5:53 PM
Is this a serious question? Idk would you buy an "ugly" horse if it won everything... ? This question just kind of cracked me up... Have we become that vane of a society that a brand can make or break a sale?!?! smh...
Yes, it is a serious question. I saw a post on SM recently regarding folks not buying horses with brands. I found it unusual so figured I'd ask the question to see how prevalent this actually is.
I personally feel if a person has a problem with the brand we use, they don't deserve a horse we raise. That brand is over 30 years of genetic crossing, up to 5 generations of horses and now 2 generations of people.
This is how I feel. Although my program is not nearly as established. But I put a lot in to what I'm producing and I'm proud of my horses and want people to know where they came from. |
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| Nevertooold - 2016-08-15 10:46 AM
I thought about this and I have owned many horses with brands and one with a huge brand on his butt that was ridiculous but it didn't keep me from buying them. But there is a person that I have a real deep unfondness for and she brands all of her horses and I wouldn't take one of hers for free because of all the negative energy that the brand stands for.
This would be my opinion as well. If I did not want to be associated with a particular person be it for whatever reason, then that might detour me.
We brand at the point we are okay being associated with that horse for the rest of his or her life. Not every horse that comes through ththe barn gets the brand. |
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| The worst purchase I've ever made was branded by the breeder on his left hip and a horse trader on his left shoulder.
When people see the hip they call it the bucking brand and when they see the shoulder they just shake their heads. Lol! I'm happy for the brands because I would never go near either one of these again. I hope those two keep branding :)
Now I have two horses that I adore with brands. I would look for these brands again! |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | It is the SAME HORSE with or without the brand. If I liked him well enough to buy him unbranded, I would buy him with multiple brands. |
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| RBH - 2016-08-15 5:22 PM
The worst purchase I've ever made was branded by the breeder on his left hip and a horse trader on his left shoulder.
When people see the hip they call it the bucking brand and when they see the shoulder they just shake their heads. Lol! I'm happy for the brands because I would never go near either one of these again. I hope those two keep branding :)
Now I have two horses that I adore with brands. I would look for these brands again!
Each person to their own, but to discriminate all horses wearing a certain brand?
The owners could have changed their breeding program since, it could have been the horses life experiences after leaving the breeder.
You could be missing out on some exceptional horses |
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Location: Louisiana | We have a brand and iron but have been lazy about getting them done...
After the weekend I've witnessed, they will be branded soon. For a brand's true purpose-identification.
I have seen so many FB posts of people looking for horses, do you know how many sorrel/bay/etc horses there are??
I want to be able to say, horses will have Flying W brand on right shoulder. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | dashnlotti - 2016-08-15 10:43 PM We have a brand and iron but have been lazy about getting them done... After the weekend I've witnessed, they will be branded soon. For a brand's true purpose-identification. I have seen so many FB posts of people looking for horses, do you know how many sorrel/bay/etc horses there are?? I want to be able to say, horses will have Flying W brand on right shoulder.
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | We brand everything we raise...for that matter, pretty much everything we own gets a brand. I wait as long as I can on the babies so it doesn't get so big. If I keep them until they are yearlings I will do it then.....but before they leave our ranch they are branded. I live in ranch country, and brands are a fact of livestock ownership.
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| I was just asked this question from a breeder. I personally don't mind brands from the breeder, usually if I buy a horse from a breeder, I like that breeder and if the horse does well, I like that people know where it came from. I don't like multiple brands or people that brand everything they buy. If you raise it and want to brand it, I am okay with that.
It doesn't deter me but I would rather have a brand than initials in papers.  With that said, I just like the actual name without it. Flows better without initials. LOL |
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| cheryl makofka - 2016-08-15 10:36 PM
RBH - 2016-08-15 5:22 PM
The worst purchase I've ever made was branded by the breeder on his left hip and a horse trader on his left shoulder.
When people see the hip they call it the bucking brand and when they see the shoulder they just shake their heads. Lol! I'm happy for the brands because I would never go near either one of these again. I hope those two keep branding :)
Now I have two horses that I adore with brands. I would look for these brands again!
Each person to their own, but to discriminate all horses wearing a certain brand?
The owners could have changed their breeding program since, it could have been the horses life experiences after leaving the breeder.
You could be missing out on some exceptional horses
I already didn't like the horse...these were multiple strangers at different venues approaching me with the same feedback about both the breeder and the trader.
So no, I think those odds are pretty good that there is a consistent pattern there.
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Location: MD | I will admit that there is one particular brand that a lot of newbies and gunsels see and go running with their checkbook. When I see it, I stop looking at the horse, no matter how much I might like the looks of them. Beyond that particular exception, the size, location, or number of brands on a horse doesn't impact any decisions that I might make about them. |
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Location: Arkansas | dashnlotti - 2016-08-15 10:43 PM
We have a brand and iron but have been lazy about getting them done...
After the weekend I've witnessed, they will be branded soon. For a brand's true purpose-identification.
I have seen so many FB posts of people looking for horses, do you know how many sorrel/bay/etc horses there are??
I want to be able to say, horses will have Flying W brand on right shoulder.
Bless your heart, you are sure seeing the purpose a brand needs to cover. . . . I can imagine the peace of mind having a brand on your horses would give you in situations like you're involved in and witnessing right now. |
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Location: North of where I want to be | I agree with branding and I disagree with it; here is why.....I agree with breeders branding their horses. I agree with having a form of identifying your animals should they get lost. I get all of that. I DO NOT like "trainers" who brand everything that walks through their barn . I have a very nice gelding that came from a well know ranch that carries their brand, and now also carries a brand that NO ONE outside our area knows because the trainer branded him. ITS HUGE and it annoys the life out of me. I also ride a horse who has 4 brands on him, all came from the original ranch and I am not a huge fan of that either. No it doesn't change how these horses ride but it does change how the are percieved.
I see Mighty Broke's brand I know chances are that horse has mad skills, and a world of time and devotion on the breeders part put into bringing that horse to life. |
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Location: OH | KRJ1791 - 2016-08-18 8:00 AM I agree with branding and I disagree with it; here is why.....I agree with breeders branding their horses. I agree with having a form of identifying your animals should they get lost. I get all of that. I DO NOT like "trainers" who brand everything that walks through their barn . I have a very nice gelding that came from a well know ranch that carries their brand, and now also carries a brand that NO ONE outside our area knows because the trainer branded him. ITS HUGE and it annoys the life out of me. I also ride a horse who has 4 brands on him, all came from the original ranch and I am not a huge fan of that either. No it doesn't change how these horses ride but it does change how the are percieved.
I see Mighty Broke's brand I know chances are that horse has mad skills, and a world of time and devotion on the breeders part put into bringing that horse to life.
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Location: Here | psaaat - 2016-08-14 4:32 PM Just curious about this. Does a brand/location of a brand on a horse influence your decision to purchase? Thanks for all your feedback!
It sure could. |
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Location: Here | KRJ1791 - 2016-08-18 7:00 AM I agree with branding and I disagree with it; here is why.....I agree with breeders branding their horses. I agree with having a form of identifying your animals should they get lost. I get all of that. I DO NOT like "trainers" who brand everything that walks through their barn . I have a very nice gelding that came from a well know ranch that carries their brand, and now also carries a brand that NO ONE outside our area knows because the trainer branded him. ITS HUGE and it annoys the life out of me. I also ride a horse who has 4 brands on him, all came from the original ranch and I am not a huge fan of that either. No it doesn't change how these horses ride but it does change how the are percieved.
I see Mighty Broke's brand I know chances are that horse has mad skills, and a world of time and devotion on the breeders part put into bringing that horse to life.
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Location: Here | One last thought , some brands aren't worth the bagage that comes with them
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Location: Florida | I consider brands useful to identify a horse if it has been stolen, other than that, never think about them. A horse doesn't run on it's looks. |
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Location: North of where I want to be | I think that commentary could go tothe different strokes for different folks. Not every breeder puts the time and commitment into producing a quality animal that others do. Frankly after my experience with I will pass up the hi production ranch's prospect for a small personal operations prospect any day. And there are trainers out there who are branding and who have a "style" that doesn't work for me.....I see those brands I keep looking. Just a thought.
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Location: Here | okhorselover - 2016-08-18 5:45 PM SG. - 2016-08-18 4:40 PM One last thought , some brands aren't worth the bagage that comes with them Can you explain your comment ? Just wondering 
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| No, they don't really bother me. The only time I hate them is when they're super big. Horses ARE NOT bill boards.
I had one that I bought hair dye and kept it dyed (freeze brand), because it literally covered his entire left hind and distracted from what a cool horse he was.
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Brands on horses - does it affect your decision to purchase?