A quick Q for livery yard owners/managers

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How many of you have a microchip scanner? If not and a prospective client showed up with a horse and a passport that didn't match the horse as far as colour and size went, would you accept it, especially with horse abandonment a growing problem?

Just wondering.
 
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How many of you have a microchip scanner? If not and a prospective client showed up with a horse and a passport that didn't match the horse as far as colour and size went, would you accept it, especially with horse abandonment a growing problem?

Just wondering.
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i had a small yard and used to run it with a livery or two, i would be v aware, but at the same time take into consideration when the passport was made? i know for fact my foals passport isnt 100% now - he has change colours and markings, and may not make the expected height or could be bigger. if you are wary then suggest having the horse scanned, as a yard policy or try and find out some background info on the new livery, not sure what other people would think but thats my suggestion, some people are just genuine and maybe not so up to date, but there is also lots of horror stories on horses just being left on yards.

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I'll also add that along with the colour/height discrepancies, the whorls don't match either.

There is also no record of a microchip on NED, although there's a number on the passport.

I made a phone call today that has made me wonder about this sort of scenario.
 
As well as checking the horse passport - almost as important I would want to check the owners identity - up to date council tax or utility bill - drivers licence ! sounds overkill but if they do abandon a horse on livery the first thing you need to know is how to contact them.
 
Yoiks:eek:

No, I do not have a scanner, but if I was in the business of checking ID's, then YES, I would take the horse, suspicions or not, for two reasons:

a) If the bills are not paid I am legally entitled to sell a horse to recoup my costs, and
b) If a horse is stolen, then it is safe in my paddocks for the time being.

As a yard owner I do absolutely no ID checks at all, and I have never been on a yard where anyone has either. I would be extremely insulted if anyone asked for my ID or proof of ownership, not a good way to begin a business relationship.

Actually we don't even have passports so the question is actually null and void. This is a very close knit horse community, if a horse had been stolen, or there was an alert of any kind out the grapevine would work very quickly. If I was suspicious I would be asking a lot of questions, of a lot of people, word would get back.

If someone abandoned a horse, after a fortnight of non payment, I have the legal right to proceed with the Innkeepers Lien which means I have to notify the owner or interested parties publicly through a newspaper advert that the horse/property (trailer,tack whatever) will be put up for public auction to recoup my costs, and I would have no hesitation in doing so.
 
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I always ask to see passports, take a photocopy for my records and for the yard insurance. I had a passport once that had the white socks reduced in size in biro
!, when I pointed it out to her she said that the trekking centre that loaned her the horse for the winter opened a drawer, took one out and said'that one will do!'
 
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