transporting a mare and foal at foot. does foal need passport?

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Hi,
Transporting a mare infoal and a foal at foot. Mare has book and chip, but foal has cover cert not passported yet. Can they still be transported from northern ireland to north yorkshire. All is ok 100% with mare and foal.
Its just a case of waiting on passport to come back as can take 6-8 weeks.
Thanks
 
As far as I'm aware, they need to be passported by six months old or 31 Dec the year it was born, whichever is later - the fact you're importing could alter things but I know a foal doesn't need to be passported within the UK until 6 months old.

ETA Just read you said Northern Ireland so it should be fine.
 
You are fine!

You are not importing as NI is part of the UK!

The mares passport covers your foal at foot as long as when you travel the foal is indeed STILL at foot.

If you are doing this yourself you do not need any other paperwork.

If using a transporter pay for an individual load! Otherwise the transporter should if doing a shared load MUST provide a qualified FOAL attendant specifically for the foal so technically a 3rd person.

I would not do a shared load at the moment due to the prevalence still of EHV-4, Equine Flu and Strangles.

Best be safe rather than lose a foal

Good luck
 
Thanks a million, foal is 5mths all paper ok just book not done yet and instead of waiting 6weeks. Brilliant thanks
 
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