WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
WikiVisually
The entire wiki reimagined as a visual magazine with video discovery · Watch your interests come alive
Nature The World Movies USA Top Art Fine & Rare History Ivy & Inquiry
Freeze brand
Videos
Freeze branding is a technique involving a cryogenic coolant instead of heat to produce permanent marks on a variety of animals.
This mustang was captured by the Bureau of Land Management and freeze branded using the alpha-angle system (see § below). From left to right the brand
This mustang was captured by the Bureau of Land Management and freeze branded using the alpha-angle system (see § below). From left to right the brand says the horse is registered to the federal government, was born in the year 2000 and carries the registration number 012790, indicating that it was branded at a BLM facility in Oregon.
A Chincoteague pony on Assateague Island, Virginia with a control number freeze branded on its left hindquarter.
A Chincoteague pony on Assateague Island, Virginia with a control number freeze branded on its left hindquarter.
A wild mustang freeze branded by the Bureau of Land Management in 2004. In this photo the brand has just been applied and the horse's skin is still fr
A wild mustang freeze branded by the Bureau of Land Management in 2004. In this photo the brand has just been applied and the horse's skin is still frozen in the depression left by the cryobrand. The brand says the horse is registered to the federal government, was born in 1997 and carries the registration number 599810, indicating that it was branded at a BLM facility in Nevada.
A freeze-branded mustang. The brand says this horse is registered to the Federal Government, was born in the year 2001 and carries the registration nu
A freeze-branded mustang. The brand says this horse is registered to the Federal Government, was born in the year 2001 and carries the registration number 598563, indicating that the horse was branded at a BLM facility in Nevada.
Branding iron
Videos
A branding iron is used for branding, pressing a heated metal shape against an object or livestock with the intention of leaving an identifying mark.
Freeze brand
…involving a cryogenic coolant instead of heat to produce permanent marks on a variety of animals. The coolant is used to lower the temperature of a branding iron such that its application to shaved skin will permanently alter hair follicles. The intense cold destroys the pigmentation apparatus in the animal's…
Branding irons from the Grant–Kohrs Ranch, c. 1910s.
Branding irons from the Grant–Kohrs Ranch, c. 1910s.
Native slave branding during the Spanish colonization of the Americas
Native slave branding during the Spanish colonization of the Americas