Update on EIA--food for thought for yard owners

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Horse owners and yard owners--do you know your horse's/your clients horses history?
Should you take more trouble to look into this?
Did a breeder take out a passport in the horse's birth year or did a dealer re-passport an imported horse?

The current horse found to be carrying EIA has been in the country 4 years.
It came into UK with the horse which was positive to EIA in Devon in 2010
Dealers importing horses sell all round the UK

DEFRA have closed the yard this horse was on for a minimum of 3 months and are searching for contacts, meaning other horses cannot be moved. Think how this could affect you/your yard

It is time the Tripartite Agreement was returned to its original intention and close the doors to this constant shuffling of horses across the Channel from ''who knows where originally'' with the opportunity to bring disease to UK.

http://www.aht.org.uk/icc/Interim_Report11_october12.html
 
Cuffey said:
Horse owners and yard owners--do you know your horse's/your clients horses history?
Should you take more trouble to look into this?
Did a breeder take out a passport in the horse's birth year or did a dealer re-passport an imported horse?

The current horse found to be carrying EIA has been in the country 4 years.
It came into UK with the horse which was positive to EIA in Devon in 2010
Dealers importing horses sell all round the UK

DEFRA have closed the yard this horse was on for a minimum of 3 months and are searching for contacts, meaning other horses cannot be moved. Think how this could affect you/your yard

It is time the Tripartite Agreement was returned to its original intention and close the doors to this constant shuffling of horses across the Channel from ''who knows where originally'' with the opportunity to bring disease to UK.

http://www.aht.org.uk/icc/Interim_Report11_october12.html
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I am in total agreement with your post. I understand that the AHT had highlighted the UK's inability to cope with a major viral outbreak the day NED was cancelled.

I still do not understand why the UK cannot have a similar system to that in France, where ownership documents are issued by the single PIO in France. This makes it much more difficult to obtain duplicate passports or to sell a horse on loan.
 
Rollin I totally agree with you about ownership documents
I raised this at a workshop/conference and the BEVA representative said and I quote
'' it would just be something else for horse owners to lose'' and not ONE other person backed me up--I am still annoyed about that!!
Said BEVA representative was also more than happy to re-passport imported horses so what hope do we have....................of tracing original country/importer etc
 
Cuffey said:
Rollin I totally agree with you about ownership documents
I raised this at a workshop/conference and the BEVA representative said and I quote
'' it would just be something else for horse owners to lose'' and not ONE other person backed me up--I am still annoyed about that!!
Said BEVA representative was also more than happy to re-passport imported horses so what hope do we have....................of tracing original country/importer etc
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I am shocked to read that. Can I assume that British horse owners have a lower IQ than their French counterparts? It works here, with the exception of the low end of the market, there are still heinz 57 ponies kept on rural farms which may not have correct documentation but they are not likely to be 'stolen on loan.'

All my passports are kept in an alphabetic file. The ownership documents - one single sheet are kept in a sep file. It is so easy to change ownership, vendor and purchase sing the paper which is sent to the SIRE database.

A friend in the UK sold a horse to Holland, which she was not paid for, we were able to check this stallion's whereabouts in France and the new owners provided her with info on the purchase price, she is now able to pursue the dishonest purchaser in Holland.

My horses are valuable. I am not in the habit of mislaying my cheque book or credit card so why would this be a problem.
 
I would like to ask why these horses, if they can be traced to contact with the 2010 case, were not tested then?


For that matter isn't it about time that horse were Coggins tested before import?
 
s4sugar said:
I would like to ask why these horses, if they can be traced to contact with the 2010 case, were not tested then?


For that matter isn't it about time that horse were Coggins tested before import?
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Totally agree with you

The Lessons Learned from the Wiltshire case in early 2010 really did not carry through.

Some of us were flagging up to DEFRA and Trading Stds the horses ''resting'' at Exeter sales and being loaded by various dealers, the suspicion being that they were from Eastern Europe-- this was well before the Wiltshire case.

Our doors are wide open to disease and many owners will be suffering heartache if they bought from one of the regular Exeter dealers
 
s4sugar said:
For that matter isn't it about time that horse were Coggins tested before import?
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This is what I just don't understand. Tests are very simple and you can have the results in 24hrs. We can't move our horses anywhere within Argentina, let alone go to shows, etc, without a valid Coggin's test. Not that the rules aren't flouted, but the legislation IS there.
 
Bobajob - There is no cure for EIA "the only protection is prevention". I had a horse caught up in an EIA outbreak (from an imported horse), quarantined and tested. It is horrible waiting to hear if your horse passes clear or if it fails - slaughter and no compensation. Things need tightened up.

S4sugar I agree with you, when I heard about this case I asked on here could it be connected with the 2010 cases but thought it couldn't be because they were supposed to have traced and tested all horses linked to that case. :-(
 
Dealing with and managing and preventing EIA isn't rocket science. In North America, all shows, from recognised ones to schooling ones, require you to send in a negative Coggins test, as do transport companies and boarding stables. Most people do a Coggins test once per year, usually when they have the vet out for other routine stuff like teeth floating. It doesn't cost that much. This is all standard operating procedure.
 
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