Trace Horse recorded as slaughtered but is NOT ? Please help!!!

ycbm said:
I've never had any vet check a chip or a passport.

I've had a 4 year old and later a 2 year old gelded without a passport check and multiple other times drugs prescribed without the vet knowing whether or not they were signed out of the food chain.
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I find it’s very hit and miss with checking passports, I’ve had geldings done without a look at them and then vets wanting to see them to proscribe some bute even though the horse is ancient, signed out the food chain and been with the practice since the year dot.

And there’s no checks / confirmation at end of life either, I had an emergency PTS last December and between the vet and the hunt, no-one saw any paperwork to confirm the horse they were injecting and taking away was the horse I’d said it was.

OP, you won’t get in any trouble for not updating the passport and I think your lad is lucky to have found you and had the 8 years together. You’ll probably never know what happened.
 
Update: I found 1 microchip, it matches the passport.

The chip reader says it recognises FDX-B and EMID chips. Could this be why? Incase it isn’t picking up on a possible second one, but I’m not sure

A friend on yard asked me to scan her horse too, we both have standardbreds. My horse was late passported with HSI, hers with Stagbi. We couldn’t find a microchip her horses neck. We are wondering is there anywhere else microchips are implanted/migrated/found in horses?…
 
Ynnek said:
Update: I found 1 microchip, it matches the passport.

The chip reader says it recognises FDX-B and EMID chips. Could this be why? Incase it isn’t picking up on a possible second one, but I’m not sure

A friend on yard asked me to scan her horse too, we both have standardbreds. My horse was late passported with HSI, hers with Stagbi. We couldn’t find a microchip her horses neck. We are wondering is there anywhere else microchips are implanted/migrated/found in horses?…
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I don’t know about types of chip at all, but they do migrate something awful at times. I’ve known them found in the shoulder, upper foreleg and the chest, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get elsewhere. Bodies are weird and chips are very very small.
 
Snowfilly said:
I don’t know about types of chip at all, but they do migrate something awful at times. I’ve known them found in the shoulder, upper foreleg and the chest, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get elsewhere. Bodies are weird and chips are very very small.
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Yup....I would scan everything between the ears, ribcage and knees 😆 Twice. Just to be sure! It's probably in there somewhere.....
 
Chips also fail. One was put into my cat and scanned fine but when we came to program the cat flap a month later it was dead. Even if it had migrated it would have been found in a cat.
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Ynnek said:
Update: I found 1 microchip, it matches the passport.

The chip reader says it recognises FDX-B and EMID chips. Could this be why? Incase it isn’t picking up on a possible second one, but I’m not sure

A friend on yard asked me to scan her horse too, we both have standardbreds. My horse was late passported with HSI, hers with Stagbi. We couldn’t find a microchip her horses neck. We are wondering is there anywhere else microchips are implanted/migrated/found in horses?…
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Then it's likely that at some point somebody sent the poor boy to be PTS and whoever took him sold him instead. It's sadly not that uncommon a story. He sounds lucky to have ended up with you.
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I went to see a standie when I was horse shopping and I said I'd eat my hat if that was the horses real passport, I'm sure she'd come over with a new one with about 8 years shaved off and her seller was novice/naive. Lovely mare too many issues for me but I still think about her. Love a good standie.
 
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