tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post909313985919805138..comments2023-05-22T10:03:35.434-06:00Comments on Fantastyk Voyage: Freezing your ...Fantastyk Voyagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065772565014490544noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-35631585046596519792008-12-07T19:59:00.000-07:002008-12-07T19:59:00.000-07:00WOW, you were lucky he had the brand for them to c...WOW, you were lucky he had the brand for them to check. What would they have done if he wasn't branded? Would the color markings on the registration papers be sufficient?<BR/><BR/>I have a book on how to decipher the coding but I can't find it at the moment. I will try to find it and post more about it.Fantastyk Voyagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15065772565014490544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-21971509923886998392008-12-07T12:55:00.000-07:002008-12-07T12:55:00.000-07:00Thanks for posting those freeze brand pics. In sum...Thanks for posting those freeze brand pics. In summer, I'll do the same and post Baasha's in my blog. Why not now? Cuz his brand is mostly hidden by hair, and get this, my clippers don't work here cuz Europe and the US have a totally different electrical current system. I thought I could get an adapter, and use my clippers, but no, not with clippers, they are finicky I guess. So I had to wet down the hair around his freezemark, cuz a German Customs agent came by to inspect him when he arrived from the US.<BR/><BR/>They needed to prove that he was in fact the horse we say he was. This was the best way. They photographed his freezemark several times. I was so mad my clippers don't work! <BR/><BR/>I remember standing in the customs office earlier, pointing to his registration papers, explaining the freezebrand code to them. This is the big A that means he's purebred (a sideways A means half-arab). This is the year he was born (the two digits next to the A). This is his registration number. You can compare with the real number on paper and see where the numbers are duplicated, the symbols are also. A 5 in his year of birth matches the little symbol for the 5 in his reg. number, e.g. They were very very thorough with the matter of me importing my horse into their region of Germany.<BR/><BR/>After a long while they accepted that he is the horse we said he is.<BR/><BR/>Whew!<BR/><BR/>I wonder why freezemarking is not done on Arabs as much anymore...lythahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719586193059362084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-29626309556808597062008-12-06T08:14:00.000-07:002008-12-06T08:14:00.000-07:00GreyWolf, thankis for coming by.You should check o...GreyWolf, thankis for coming by.<BR/>You should check out some of my early posts: Like Some Cat From Japan, for instance, all about Japanese Chins and why they aren't dogs!Fantastyk Voyagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15065772565014490544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-55021184965431196592008-12-05T18:29:00.000-07:002008-12-05T18:29:00.000-07:00Wow, Very interesting even to a non horse person. ...Wow, Very interesting even to a non horse person. I think Lisa is rubbing off on you. Now I have another Blog School to attend. Thanks for the lesson.GreyWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509772394021322139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-70048680738877248922008-12-05T11:20:00.000-07:002008-12-05T11:20:00.000-07:00Lisa- you would see a brand and the tattoos are mo...Lisa- you would see a brand and the tattoos are mostly done on racing Thoroughbreds.<BR/><BR/>Yes, Nadia appears to be all white but when you get up close to her she has black and gray marks and even little spots everywhere.Fantastyk Voyagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15065772565014490544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-63317709542104752902008-12-05T11:18:00.000-07:002008-12-05T11:18:00.000-07:00Cara- I have never had my horses branded or tagged...Cara- I have never had my horses branded or tagged. Nadia was bought that way.<BR/><BR/>Melanie- Nadia wasn't born yet when I was considering breeding Shahreen. But yes, I was very lucky that Shahreen's injury was minor. A stupid girl was trying to train her horse to cart and the horse ran away from her. Poor Shahreen had nowhere to go. Her injury was minor. She developed a hernia from the trauma which resulted in a spot on her flank that constantly "leaked" fluids for months although fortunately she didn't need surgery or anything else.Fantastyk Voyagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15065772565014490544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-77331702116201417762008-12-05T10:08:00.000-07:002008-12-05T10:08:00.000-07:00Awww, sweet little Nadia. :)Funny how, in that pho...Awww, sweet little Nadia. :)<BR/>Funny how, in that photo, her spots really stand out. She looks all white most of the time.<BR/> <BR/>I never knew most of that stuff about freeze-branding. It's really fascinating.<BR/>I'm glad they don't use the hot branding on horses much anymore.<BR/>I know Baby Doll doesn't have a freeze-brand, but I wonder if she has a tattoo. I've never looked.<BR/>I figure with her registration papers, it probably doesn't matter, but it's is still pretty interesting.<BR/><BR/>~LisaLaughing Orca Ranchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03562627840013868980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-33667149444205853372008-12-05T09:49:00.000-07:002008-12-05T09:49:00.000-07:00LOL!!!! The post below is too cute! Buddha looks l...LOL!!!! The post below is too cute! Buddha looks like he is quite full of himself. :)<BR/><BR/>How horrible that Nadia was struck by a runaway horse and cart!!! They can do a lot of damage, so she is lucky that she was not killed...thank goodness!<BR/><BR/>Too funny that you are doing your sociology paper on blogging...lol!!!Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682815635702122191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898420772649186550.post-78124370077720855442008-12-05T09:21:00.000-07:002008-12-05T09:21:00.000-07:00Very cool! Even without the papers, you can still ...Very cool! Even without the papers, you can still know her breeding. Wow!<BR/><BR/>I had Janow implanted with a microchip many years ago. Probably 1993 or '94. A freeze brand indicating the presence of the ship was optional. I chose to have the freezebrand. Afterward, if I had to choose again, I would choose not. He found it very painfull for about as much time as I would have expected from hot iron branding.<BR/><BR/>If the choice were between permanent ID and no permanant ID, I would do it, but not in addition to a chip.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02588163317389814730noreply@blogger.com