New Rules - Microchips/Passports

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Now, this doesn't affect me directly, as my horse is freezemarked, microchipped and has a passport.
But I want to understand the new rules, which are due to begin soon this yr I believe.
Do you need to have a microchip done before getting a passport (for those horses which do not have a passport yet)? Or do all horses (even if they have a passport) need to get microchipped?
I am not sure how well these rules have been publicised?
How does the new rule affect you personally?
 
It applies to all horses being passported after 1st July, so any horse that already has a passport does not need to be microchipped.

All good in theory, but lets face it the law abiding people will continue to shell out their money for a system that won't work and the rogues will just ignore it like they do everything else.

Won't affect me yet as all mine have passports and I have no intention of wasting money on microchips. Will effect me in the future as I am hoping to breed so obviously newborns would need chipping to be compliant.
 
It worries me slightly, as some horses have quite adverse effects to microchips and their bodies reject them (quite rare but does happen)

Luckily wont effect me as Cato has passport and she is NOT beign chipped.

Lou x
 
This will not affect me as mine already have passports, but i would have thought that freezemarking would be more effective than microchipping.
 
I had to have a passport created for my Spanish horse last year as he didn't have one.

The vet turned up and gave him a chip (which is registered in a different place to the passport) when she filled in the passport application form. The vet had to sign the passport application which (in the case of the BAPSH) also required a chip number.

If the passport application doesn't require a chip then I suppose that it doesn't matter which comes first. But perhaps, there will be new passport application forms brought in which ask for the chip number. Who knows?
 
This is the one place where Freezemarking falls down. A foal cannot be Freezemarked until it is 12 months old. Microchips can be implanted from a week old. The idea is to have a permanent identifier from the moment a passport is first issued, which must be by six months or December for a foal, whichever comes first.
I hate the thought that my foal will have to be microchiped.
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I see. Good point. I hope you don't mind me asking, but can I ask why you are concerned about microchipping? Perhaps the procedure or something else?
 
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