> I've seen only white freeze brands and I can't even understand where > the dark colour would come from. White is there because the cells that > produce colour pigments are sufficiently damaged not to work anymore
My grey horses scar dark, but I think that is basically because the scar is somewhat bald and the dark skin shows through. Freeze branding counts in this balding for light colored horses (http://www.lhbrandingirons.com/Freeze/Instructions.html). In terms of pain, if you've ever had a wart or an actinic keratosis burned off with liquid nitrogen -- effectively the same process. Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ http://www.dslextreme.com/~napha/JoyOfRiding/index.htm
