To microchip or Freezemark???

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As the title.
I had my previous horse microchipped because he'd have had a nervous breakdown if we'd attempted to freezemark him.
Now, I'm thinking something more visible may deter thieves and if the unthinkable happens, I'd be more likely to get her back if she was freezemarked.
Thoughts?
 
Freezemarking if I had the choice.

I'm going to get stan done at the same time his teeth are in the spring so that he's sedated. He's already microchipped, but that's no good when people are having a snoop round.
 
My horse is freezemarked and microchipped (neither done by me!), only the freezemark is in my name as haven't been able to/got round to putting the microchip in my name!! I think freezemarking is better though, as you say it is a visible deterrent.
 
My horse was chipped before I got him. But I got him FM as it is a visible deterant and more easily traced. A scanner is not needed.

Unfortunately, he has the hide of a rhino and has had it done 3 times already. He was more scared of the clippers than the actual FMs themselves.
 
Freezemark every time
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Freezemark!! All ours are done. Its the only sure way to keep your horse where he/she should be, with you!!

Have a look at the stolen horse site at the numbers of chipped horses that have been stolen and never found if anyone needs convincing. I dont work for a freezemark company but do think it should be compulsory for all equines over 12 months.
 
My vote is for freezemarking - there are too many microchips on the market, they cannot all be read by the same scanners and at sales and export/import it is not customary to scan them for chips anyway.
 
freezemarking every time for me. i had my dog stolen and she was microchipped what a waste of money as when i phone up to report it it was a call centre and they just noted it done
 
There was an article in the last BHS magazine by a Police helicopter pilot about a search he was involved in. Primarily it was about how much better it would have been if the rider they were looking for had been wearing hi viz. But an additional problem was that for the first couple of hours they didn't know who they were looking for or where to look (tacked horse minus rider had been found). At the end of the article, as an aside, he mentions that if the horse had been freeze marked or the tack postcode marked they could have got a description & likely route to search within half an hour. Not a benefit that I had ever considered before, but if like the rider concerned I had been lying in a field on a blazing hot day with a broken hip I would consider it an enormous benefit.
 
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