Brand

Brand tool

A brand (from * a commodity that is borrowed from Turkic. ^[1] , possibly from tāw “sign” in the Protosinai script) is a sign by which horse breeders marked their horses . Inherited like a family coat of arms , in rare cases, changed. Hence - “ Tugra ”, a personal sign of statesmen of the East. ^[2]

You could recognize the plant by the brand and, therefore, judge the quality of the goods offered. In the Kazakh steppes, where a herd of horses was carried out in the 19th century, and the herds were often mixed with each other, the brand had the value of a passport . Therefore, branding was most common in the Central Asian steppes and in the Caucasus . Typically, Tauris foals in the second year of life, in spring, on the right or left thigh, sometimes in other places of the body.

Modern horse brand made by frostbite

An instrument for tavreniya was an elongated piece of iron, which was heated to the necessary degree and applied to the body of the animal for several seconds to cause a small burn. In most cases, the Kazakh brand was one feature, but if it was to depict several lines incorrectly positioned in relation to one another, then in order to avoid unnecessary torment, the horses glowed several pieces of iron at once and applied them simultaneously. For larger horse breeders, the brand wore a more specific image and was superimposed with a specially made tool.

Each brand had a name in similarity with the depicted object or, rather, with the object that it was supposed to depict. In the Caucasus, the brand was more complex in image, since most of the large horse owners belonged to the Sultan and prince families, whose emblems were distinguished by pretentiousness. As an example, the Tonaevs from Kazanich had a private brand, the stallions stigmatized by this brand were known throughout the Caucasus, and their brand went down in history as "Kazanysh-kumuk damgya (tamga)." ^[3] .