It is interesting all the different ways we have to encode data adapted to specific purposes.
As a child in the late 1970s, my family adopted a wild burro in California. My parents had her for over 30 years. I remember she had these freeze marks although you would have needed to shave it to read it. Burros are much shaggier than horses.
She was mostly a pet, and was very gentle and easy to lead.
We also had horses. The burro was useful for training the horses to behave in a herd because she while she enjoyed being in the group she held herself outside of the horse’s hierarchy and would not be bullied
She was very adapt at wading into thorny blackberry bushes and eating only the ripest berries
How was she around dogs? Burros in AZ attack dogs. Had one harass our dog all night while camping, had to put the poor thing in the truck, it was terrified.
Yeah. I came home from spring break during college and the back pasture was filled with flowers so I got a chair and started reading a book, enjoying Arcadian nature.
Fucking colt snuck up on me from the back and bit me hard on the shoulder. When I jumped up to beat the shit out it the fucker did the old can't catch me nehhing business.
My quite short (~5') dressage champ younger sister had to punch way up when her horse was an asshole but I was very impressed to watch her discipline the horse.
I have hated horses all my life. My KLR650 is superior in every way.
Yeah, I dunno, I've seen a lot of burros and this was pretty far off the beaten path. It was a major surprise for us that this burro hated dogs. OTOH I've seen a lot of horses and dogs working together (hunting, say?) and never seen anything negative happen. Why would burros be any different? So maybe it had been harassed. Given it's aggressiveness (literally a few feet from us) it would be a really bad idea for a dog to screw with it.
> The hair at the site of the mark will grow back white and show the identification number
Is freezing a follicle turning the hair permanently white? I couldn't find anything on the mechanism. I'm surprised that people who are into body art (tattoos, piercings, etc.) didn't pick something like this up.
In that case (fascinating reading!), the person used far too cold of a solution, applied it for too long, and in consequence suffered a really bad injury, possibly compounded because she didn't seek treatment for 2 and a half weeks. Also, it was on a forearm, not the head or other hairy areas, so the mechanism of marking was more "kill the whole skin" than "kill pigment cells" specifically.
It could be done in a much safer manner - I don't think it really proves much about effectiveness overall.
what an elegant system. the even numbers are in the square and odd in the diamond. I knew the alphabet variation on this as the masonic cipher or pigpen.it doesn't appear to be in use anywhere else in spite if it being called the international alpha angle system though.
I think you'd find the article's assertion that the mark is "painless" is a bit overoptimistic. Liquid nitrogen feels about like being burned with a soldering iron (having used it before to remove warts).
As a child in the late 1970s, my family adopted a wild burro in California. My parents had her for over 30 years. I remember she had these freeze marks although you would have needed to shave it to read it. Burros are much shaggier than horses.