Tracing Microchips

buting37

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Hi All

Having a total nightmare at the moment trying to trace a microchip. A friend of a friend bought the horse from a dealer ( who will remain nameless) with the promise that the passport would follow in the post - sound familiar???... Anyway the passport never arrived and the owner who is not the most clued up horsey person got her vet to insert a microchip and make a new passport for said horse.
After months of various dramas the horse has passed hands once again and my friend now has him. The vet was called out to give him a once over and while scanning him discovered that he now has 2 microchips!!!!ahhhhhh!!! The dealer who originally sold the horse claimed he was imported and was a belgian or dutch warmblood but looks more like a cob X to me!!
Anyways sorry for the long background story but i am now trying to trace the horse's breeding from the other microchip but have been trawling the internet all day and seem to have hit a brick wall!!cannot trace it through any database! The microchip starts with 981 and have read on many sites that this may lead to the country in which it was inserted in but not too sure about this!!

Any help would be much appreciated!!
Thanks!!
 

competitiondiva

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OK for a starters BAD vet for not checking it was already microchipped, first rule when chipping anything is check it's not already done!!!!

Secondly you are right the first 3 numbers indicate the country and I just so happen to have one of my horses chip numbers infront of me and 981 is a uk number!

So you can try to contact petlog or anibase and see if they can give you any details but due to dataprotection as you are not a registered vet or inspector etc you may fail (but try anyway!) I'd phone your vets, give them the number and see if they will phone the database for the registered owners details, after that I'm afraid in such circumstances it's pot luck as to what his history is!

Good luck
 

The Bouncing Bog Trotter

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Microchip numbers beginning with a nine are not assigned to a country but to a company like AVID (PETtrac). If you try calling them they should be able to tell you which company it 'belongs' to. What does the other chip's number begin with??

Makes a total mockery of chipping horses though. Why didn't the vet check the horse wasn't already chipped before inserting another????
 

buting37

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I know its a total disgrace but its been done now and i wouldnt think new owner would want to put him through getting it removed!! The other microchip starts with 968 which i have been able to track and it is registered with Petlog!!
Its not a disaster not knowing his breeding but wanting to compete him BSJA and possibly selling him next spring after some competition under his belt so could add some 00's onto price!!!
Thanks for the help!
 
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