Microchipping in foals - confusion!

georgie0

georgie0

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Hi people,

We have just bought an 8 months old foal from the stud where i work. He is passported but not microchipped. I know foals legally have to be microchipped, but is it the breeders responsibility to do this and is there a time frame it needs to be done in?
Thanks!
 
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erm!!! If it's a uk passport I'd (and I'm sure Defra) would like to know how he got a passport as in order to get one you have to have a vet complete a markings diagram AND send off microchip details!! Any issuer issuing passports (not breeder pedigrees) cannot by law issue a new passport without this information! Check that it is a passport as opposed to a hand written breeders pedigree etc, and contact the issuer.
 
OK it's an SHB (GB) or who used to be hunter improvement society document, they are a big issuer therefore would not have issued a passport if not chipped, look on the animals markings, ontop of the written account top right hand corner (used to be) will be id and it should i'd have thought give the microchip number there???????
 
Funny enough my youngster i bought last summer had been passported and microchipped in her SECOND home when she was 6 months old. Guess that its still easy to get away with but would have thought the vet would have taken it up with them. I would try and call the GB if i was you.
 
competitiondiva said:
OK it's an SHB (GB) or who used to be hunter improvement society document, they are a big issuer therefore would not have issued a passport if not chipped, look on the animals markings, ontop of the written account top right hand corner (used to be) will be id and it should i'd have thought give the microchip number there???????
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Ah ha!! Ah ha ah ha! Got it! Thanks for that, thats brill.
 
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