horse has different markings to passport??

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I bought my horse last year he is a riding 5 year old registered and chipped with British hanoverian horse society and I bought him from the breeder and he was branded and passported at a very young age (some sort of breed society rule) his passport says that he only has 2 white back legs but he actually has a white sock on one of his front ones too... When I asked the breeder she said he changed colour and developed the 3rd white sock after being passported... I'm now needing to register him with bd and have to submit his markings which are different in real life to on paper. What should I do? Thanks
 
I'm not expert but that sounds a bit dodgy to me! how old was he when they passported him? mine was done at 7 months old and he hasn't developed any extra white socks since, haha
 
Is he chestnut? Sometimes they're quite pale as foals and a white sock might have slipped past the radar!! Does everything else match up? (facial markings and whorls) if it does I think you can probably send an amendment to the breed society. If not, maybe a slight mix up at some point!
 
sallyo said:
I bought my horse last year he is a riding 5 year old registered and chipped with British hanoverian horse society and I bought him from the breeder and he was branded and passported at a very young age (some sort of breed society rule) his passport says that he only has 2 white back legs but he actually has a white sock on one of his front ones too... When I asked the breeder she said he changed colour and developed the 3rd white sock after being passported... I'm now needing to register him with bd and have to submit his markings which are different in real life to on paper. What should I do? Thanks
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I don't know what you should do, but just wanted to say that it is very hard to tell sometimes with foals which legs will have white on them, especially if the hoof isn't obviously pale as bays have very light legs when foals.
 
Cant figure out how to add a photo on here but everything else looks right, he was vetted at the time of purchase and nothing was queried... Do they scan the microchip on a vetting?
 
Mine was scanned at the vetting, but often a vet won't have a scanner with them. My chîp came back unregistered so it was easy to put it in my name. My horse's markings aren't accurate, either. The dealer goes to Ireland, points out the ones he wants and brings them back to England. I reckon he just shoved me whichever passport came to hand first, as three vets reckoned he was a year younger than his passport says too! Just get a receipt as proof of ownership!
 
It might just have been inattention by the vet. My youngster had his markings form done by a vet and a trainee. I had to point out to both of them that the form that had been filled in and checked was wrong.
 
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Mine was scanned at the vetting, but often a vet won't have a scanner with them. My chîp came back unregistered so it was easy to put it in my name. My horse's markings aren't accurate, either. The dealer goes to Ireland, points out the ones he wants and brings them back to England. I reckon he just shoved me whichever passport came to hand first, as three vets reckoned he was a year younger than his passport says too! Just get a receipt as proof of ownership!
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Mine too . . . although he's Polish rather than Irish . . . microchip matches name and details, but silhouette isn't him. Apparently it's more common than you'd think . . . and is yet another reason why the passport process as it stands is a joke.

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My horses passport says he has no "acquired marks" when he quite clearly has been earmarked (i.e. he has a shape clearly cut into one ear).

OP - I'm sure there is nothing iffy about it. I would contact BD to check what they would prefer you to do as regards sending them his markings, I suspect they would prefer his actual ones rather than those on the passport.
 
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