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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 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 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 number 598563, indicating that the horse was branded at a BLM facility in Nevada.
Mustang
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The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because
Freeze brand
…American West. Alpha-Angle numerals remain the best-known and most widely used part of her branding system. Starting in April 1978, all free-ranging mustangs and burros rounded up by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service have been freeze branded on the left side of the neck using Farrell's Alpha-Angle system…
Free-roaming mustangs near Chinle, Arizona
Mustang mare and foal with stallion in the West Warm Springs HMA (Herd Management Area) in Oregon
Large herd of free-roaming mustangs galloping through the plains of Utah