13th Mar 2010

I am planning on owning this 7yr Percheron/TB Mare...Need help with brand..?

  • She is from Canada, and she has a brand on her shoulder, and a brand on her hip, both on her left side. Here are the pictures... I was told she isn't registered, but I want to know if anyone knows about this brand....
    My question is mostly, why would she be branded if shes not purebred, or part of a breeding plan, etc.

    http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u309/...
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    The one with the number 43 is the shoulder brand. The others are the hip...


  • A lot of horses are branded for fun(which i don't get at all!) Like i knew a stuck up brat that branded a clover w/the letter of her first name in the middle. it was ridiculous....someone should brand her! but that doesnt look like the case here. Also horses r branded to tell which horses r who. does she live on a big horse farm. If so, it may just be a way to identify her, for breeding, etc.


  • A lot of PMU farms, or ex-PMU farms, brand their horses like that.

    You can look up brands in Alberta (http://www.lis-alberta.com/) and Saskatchewan (http://www.agr.gov.sk.ca/apps/lims/). If it was a PMU farm then it was probably NAERIC registered but they don't require branding.

    (For that left hip, J 7 over Bar, there are some matches in Alberta, but not in Saskatchewan). The 43 on the left shoulder may be a separate brand from having been on another farm, though that seems strange. Who would bother? But it also seems strange to have that to mark individual horses that aren't BLM mustangs or warmblood stallions... just seems like a lot of effort. But it could be!

    Sometimes people do brand horses simply for identification reasons. Even today with the microchip, brands are still the best way to describe and identify lost or stolen animals.


  • My guess is that she came from a PMU farm, either as a breeding mare or foal (that someone bought/adopted some years ago.)

    Draft crosses are very common as PMU mares and there are many PMU farms in Canada, the brands do look like she was part of a breeding program, just not for any sort of sport/show horse.




  • she looks like a Premarin baby which could explain the brand.







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