Following on from bute post

[happy_talk]

I was wondering how many people had had bute prescribed for their horse and their passports updated to show bute has been administered

 

[JessPickle]

my sisters horse was prescribed bute last week, vets didn't have passport because we went before they finished and forgot to leave passport, we were given a note with the bute explaining that the passport must be updated

 

[ihatework]

I missed the other bute post but is this post only applicable if your horse is intended for human consumption?

 

[happy_talk]

i've had bute prescribed and no commetn was made about updating the passport, even though it was in clear sight outside the stable at the time. so if she doesn't behave, I can still eat her!!

 

[JessPickle]

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I missed the other bute post but is this post only applicable if your horse is intended for human consumption?

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I hope not our horse is definetly not intended for human consumption!

 

[ihatework]

You should have a page in your passport declaring if your horse is intended for human consumption or not.

If its not then you don't have to record the drugs t has been administered
If it is/possibly is then you do have to record it

My vets have a paragraph on thier invoice with such a statement, although they don't ask at the time of visit

 

[happy_talk]

Ben_and_Jerrys - no. I thought the idea of passports was to prevent horses treated with certain drugs (such as bute) from entering the human food chain. Therefore, it is a requirement that any horse treated with these drugs should have its passport updated to reflect that. Whilst you may have no intention of your horse entering the human food chain, horses are sold and can/could easily be exported to europe where this could be a real option.

 

[JessPickle]

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Ben_and_Jerrys - no. I thought the idea of passports was to prevent horses treated with certain drugs (such as bute) from entering the human food chain. Therefore, it is a requirement that any horse treated with these drugs should have its passport updated to reflect that. Whilst you may have no intention of your horse entering the human food chain, horses are sold and can/could easily be exported to europe where this could be a real option.

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I always thought this as well, and that is what our vets said

 

[RachelB]

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I missed the other bute post but is this post only applicable if your horse is intended for human consumption?

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I thought that too, my vet checked my horse's passport for her flu vaccs and then she went lame a week later and was prescribed bute then... vet knew I had signed the "not for human consumption" bit so she didn't comment...

 

[happy_talk]

oh, I will check my passport to see if that statement is included in it, but either way the vet should have checked. There's nothing on invoices about this.

 

[JessPickle]

just had a look at both our horses passports no boxes or mention of the human food chain, but is a page to list prescribed drugs

 

[happy_talk]

ETS oops, seems I may have missed out that point then. I wonder if there's anything to that effect in my passport? The vet certainly didn't know, ask or check.

 

[RachelB]

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Ben_and_Jerrys - no. I thought the idea of passports was to prevent horses treated with certain drugs (such as bute) from entering the human food chain. Therefore, it is a requirement that any horse treated with these drugs should have its passport updated to reflect that. Whilst you may have no intention of your horse entering the human food chain, horses are sold and can/could easily be exported to europe where this could be a real option.

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But isn't the whole idea of the passport and having the declaration of "not for human consumption" that a horse not intended for meat cannot end up on your table anyway??

 

[happy_talk]

yes to the passport, and didn't know about the declaration.

 

[RachelB]

That was my first task on getting my horse's passport, signing the declaration!

 

[BigBird146]

I've just got a new equine vet who has just given me Bute for my horse and has never seen my passport, not even mentioned it! Not sure if his bill will say anything.

 

[MagicMelon]

Nope, not stated on my horses passports, but then all mine arent for burgers anyway!

 

[JenHunt]

one of ours has side bone and is on bute long term (all be it at half a sachet every other day!) and the vet has never asked us to write it down on the passport or give him the passport to write on it.

 

[Donkeymad]

Every Passport should have the relevant section (section IX)where you can sign to state whether intended for human consumption or not. Our vet never asks for Passports, but he does know that ours are not intended for human consumption and that, unless something happens ours animals will be with us to the end.
Most wormers have a declaration stating that a treated animal must not enter the food chain for XXXXXX number of days/weeks, but there is no requirement for them to be entered on Passports. Strange really.