I recently acquired a gelding but he has absolutely no papers on him. His only ID is a brand of an S wearing a cowboy hat on his left shoulder. Allegedly he came from CA but I cannot find that brand in their brand book. Is there anyone who can help me find out where he was foaled? He has been in OK the last few years.
How large is it, bigger than the more discrete brands in use in the US?
It could be a Mexican hand drawn brand?
Many of those are not registered.
We get nice horses with those here regularly.
Right, too pretty for the Mexican brands I have seen around here.
Good luck finding where that brand is from.
Since horse seems a paint, how about asking APHA folks?
I was told he is supposedly a QH/draft cross, and his feet are much too big to be APHA. There is definitely draft in there.
For the past years, there have been some ranch horse breeders in WY that are using drafts on some of their mares and hitting that market for bigger horses.
Maybe check WY brands?
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He could have been branded in Oklahoma so maybe look at that brand book.
Neither OK nor WY seem to have that in their brand books.
You might want to actually talk to someone at the brand board. Some brands aren’t in the book–fees might not have been paid to keep the brand current.
