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Location: Oxford, Kansas | Which do you prefer on hip brands, right or left hip? |
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Location: Louisiana | We chose the right side simply bc all of our horses with brands happened to be on the left side. Although we plan on branding on the shoulder. |
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| I don't really have a preference...except that I wish people would refrain from branding on the face. And I think some brands are way to big. |
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Location: Desert Land | Mine is on the Left Hip. Mine is also probably a little large for some people's taste (WhiteBoy), lol. BUT I had to do it larger because of the detail. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | My Family's Cattle get the left high hip branded with our registered family brand and then our number brand from TSCRA goes under our family brand.
Our horses get left shoulder with the family brand and no numbers.
Our brand is large and on the mid shoulder. We did this so that someone can't be riding the horse and throw a foot in front of the brand to hide it in case they ever end up stolen. You would have to work real hard to hide our brand if you stole our horses.
Or cattle for that matter. |
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| TheOldGrayMare - 2015-10-14 5:12 PM Mine is on the Left Hip. Mine is also probably a little large for some people's taste (WhiteBoy), lol. BUT I had to do it larger because of the detail.
I'm old fashioned I guess. lol I just dont get having a 10 inch LG covering the entire hip. |
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Location: Desert Land | Whiteboy - 2015-10-14 3:28 PM TheOldGrayMare - 2015-10-14 5:12 PM Mine is on the Left Hip. Mine is also probably a little large for some people's taste (WhiteBoy), lol. BUT I had to do it larger because of the detail. I'm old fashioned I guess. lol I just dont get having a 10 inch LG covering the entire hip.
Mine is not quite that big, LOL |
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Location: Oxford, Kansas | Thanks guys, I am registering mine now and wanted to do left hip but wasn't sure. You guys make me feel better now lol |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I prefer left thigh, but WY has strict brand laws and we were only able to get ours registered on the right thigh. |
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Location: In my own little world | If this is any help I can tell you from branding several thousand head of horses over the years with our freeze branding business that the left thigh is an easier spot to brand on the majority of horses over the right thigh. And a jaw brand is by far the easiest.position overall. |
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| I think too many people associate branding their horses with the human body tattoo craze everyone seems to do ...
If your horse is worth anything the thief will take it out of state and your brand means nothing because it is now untraceable ....
AQHA allows non race track horses to get lip tattoos with a different number/letter sequence than track tattoos .... this is traceable ..
I find it interesting that people can't wait to conjure up some goofy looking brand that has no meaning and haven't taken the time to take 5 good clear conformation shots of your naked horse to distribute if horse comes up missing ... heck most people can't even remember their horses registered name ... lol ..
If I buy an unbranded horse of any age from you and it shows up freshly branded ... it will not get off the trailer at my barn and you will be told to return my money ... and keep your horse..
Even with well known brands ... all it means to me is that you bought one of their rejects and they kept the good ones ... lol
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Location: Central Texas | I know this wasn't the question but I prefer a lip tattoo to a brand. We used to freeze brand ours on the left hip but through the years we stopped. I decided I really don't like the brand marring up my horse's look, so now we do the tattoo. We don't have a large herd, just a handful and this is just a personal perference, not putting down anyone who does brand. |
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Location: North Dakota | Mine is for the right hip.
I was told once by an excellent racehorse trainer that they chose the right side because that's the side the "crowd" views most. victory laps in the arena - right side to the crowd. Crossing the finish line - right side to the crowd. He said its the best place to "advertise". For some reason that comment always stuck with me. So I chose right side. |
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| I put all of mine on left shoulder. |
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Location: Texas | Whiteboy - 2015-10-14 4:02 PM I don't really have a preference...except that I wish people would refrain from branding on the face. And I think some brands are way to big.
I can remember seeing a horse advertised that had a huge brand on his hip. I wondered if it would hinder the sale because I know it would have to a really great horse at a good price for me to want to ride a horse with a big honking brand. |
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Location: In my own little world | BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-10-15 2:44 AM I think too many people associate branding their horses with the human body tattoo craze everyone seems to do ... If your horse is worth anything the thief will take it out of state and your brand means nothing because it is now untraceable .... AQHA allows non race track horses to get lip tattoos with a different number/letter sequence than track tattoos .... this is traceable .. I find it interesting that people can't wait to conjure up some goofy looking brand that has no meaning and haven't taken the time to take 5 good clear conformation shots of your naked horse to distribute if horse comes up missing ... heck most people can't even remember their horses registered name ... lol .. If I buy an unbranded horse of any age from you and it shows up freshly branded ... it will not get off the trailer at my barn and you will be told to return my money ... and keep your horse.. Even with well known brands ... all it means to me is that you bought one of their rejects and they kept the good ones ... lol
This makes me laugh a little, well alot really! I can tell you stories of many, many, many horses that my husband, as a livestock investigator, has recovered that were lost or stolen, and recovered quickly because of the brand. Horses that people never expected to ever see again but were very happy to know they would be getting them back. Horses that were moved several states away and were found at horse auctions, at a slaughter feedlot, almost ready to go down the alley to the kill floor of a slaughter facility, turned out in someone's pasture, in a bucking horse string, in a pack string, in someone's broodmare band, in the rodeo arena or found in random highway truck stops and by that I don't mean truck stop-gas station, I mean being pulled over and having your horse papers checked.
Because of that brand (or return address) on their thigh, jaw, shoulder, neck, or butt cheek they were more easily identifiable. If a solid bay horse is stolen it can be just that...a bay horse with no identifiable markings or distinguishing characteristics and it is easier to slide right by someone. A tattoo is helpful but not recognized as an identifiable marking in a brand state and is not checked. If someone is running a group of loose horses through a sales ring, the yard company doesn't mouth them all and check for a tattoo but they dang sure spot a brand right away. Taking conformation shots is also helpful but conformation changes with age and photos become outdated. Microchipping is the same deal and there are many kinds of chip readers so one machine does not read all the different kinds of chips.
It is also a great means of advertising. Ttake a look at Lisa Lockhart's Louie with the B Bar Heart brand. That brand being seen all over the country on a top horse like that has been very good advertising for the Bagnell family. I'd take that REJECT in my barn any day. And a good breeder does sell the good ones or they wouldn't continue to be in business.
I appreciate the fact I live in a brand state with strict brand laws and a great tracking system for the recovery of lost and stolen livestock. |
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| ropenrun - 2015-10-15 11:31 AM
BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-10-15 2:44 AM I think too many people associate branding their horses with the human body tattoo craze everyone seems to do ... If your horse is worth anything the thief will take it out of state and your brand means nothing because it is now untraceable .... AQHA allows non race track horses to get lip tattoos with a different number/letter sequence than track tattoos .... this is traceable .. I find it interesting that people can't wait to conjure up some goofy looking brand that has no meaning and haven't taken the time to take 5 good clear conformation shots of your naked horse to distribute if horse comes up missing ... heck most people can't even remember their horses registered name ... lol .. If I buy an unbranded horse of any age from you and it shows up freshly branded ... it will not get off the trailer at my barn and you will be told to return my money ... and keep your horse.. Even with well known brands ... all it means to me is that you bought one of their rejects and they kept the good ones ... lol
This makes me laugh a little, well alot really! Â I can tell you stories of many, many, many horses that my husband, as a livestock investigator, has recovered that were lost or stolen, and recovered quickly because of the brand. Â Horses that people never expected to ever see again but were very happy to know they would be getting them back. Â Horses that were moved several states away and were found at horse auctions, at a slaughter feedlot, almost ready to go down the alley to the kill floor of a slaughter facility, turned out in someone's pasture, in a bucking horse string, in a pack string, in someone's broodmare band, in the rodeo arena or found in random highway truck stops and by that I don't mean truck stop-gas station, I mean being pulled over and having your horse papers checked.
Because of that brand (or return address) on their thigh, jaw, shoulder, neck, or butt cheek they were more easily identifiable.  If a solid bay horse is stolen it can be just that...a bay horse with no identifiable markings or distinguishing characteristics and it is easier to slide right by someone. A tattoo is helpful but not recognized as an identifiable marking in a brand state and is not checked.  If someone is running a group of loose horses through a sales ring, the yard company doesn't mouth them all and check for a tattoo but they dang sure spot a brand right away.  Taking conformation shots is also helpful but conformation changes with age and photos become outdated.  Microchipping is the same deal and there are many kinds of chip readers so one machine does not read all the different kinds of chips.
 It is also a great means of advertising. Ttake a look at Lisa Lockhart's Louie with the B Bar Heart brand.  That brand being seen all over the country on a top horse like that has been very good advertising for the Bagnell family.  I'd take that REJECT in my barn any day.  And a good breeder does sell the good ones or they wouldn't continue to be in business. Â
I appreciate the fact I live in a brand state with strict brand laws and a great tracking system for the recovery of lost and stolen livestock.
I agree with you. SOme people are a little on the high horse. No pun intended. |
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Location: OH | We brand ours on the left hip but for no apparent reason---just where we started doing it. We brand because it is the cheapest advertising out there. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I brand mine on the left hip also. Had one of my geldings get out in the back pasture onto another ranch didnt know he was gone for a few days as I dont go back there everyday. Had someone come up here asking if I had a missing horse, I said no I dont think so, they described the horse and told me he had a brand on his hip told me the brand and I liked to have feel off the fence, yet thats him, they told me someone was trying to claim him and they asked what brand he had they couldnt say so did not let the man take him, think goodness. Yes I think freeze branding is a good thing. I |
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