Any of you had your horses microchipped?

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Just wondered. I read Netposse once in a while and wondered if it would help if ours ever disappeared. Not that I plan on that happening!

God knows the UPS man had trouble finding us the first two years we were there
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Maxine
 
I thought when I had the vet here for shots this spring I'd ask him about it.
 
Sonny, my quarter horse has been microchipped nearly 20 years now. It's in the neck. Wouldn't do any good though if he went missing, if the people say in auctions don't have the wand and bother to even try to detect a stolen horse. But even if Sonny were stolen, I really pity the people that did it. He'd trash them. They'd return him.
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All my pets are microchipped, including the horses. While an auction may not bother with checking for a chip at least I can prove they belong to me.
 
Yes and if the Police know they are microchipped it does help- it is NO use telling a Cop that it is a bay gelding , five years old with a white star and standing 14.2hh- BUT give him/her a locater thingey and get him to wave it over a trailer load of suspect animals- now that they can do!!
 
All of my show horses are chipped. AMHA (and probably AMHR) will put the chip number on the registration. The vet can supply the chip or you can purchase them yourself. The vet will insert and sign the form.

I have a friend who microchips every foal when its born. Buys the chips in hundred paks.
 
Our stallion (seen on the left) is microchipped... I want to get the rest of our guys microchipped too... Pride (our stallion) came that way though)... Very handy! In Louisiana, they have to be chipped or tattooed... the vet did it when he does their coggins.

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I have a couple who are. Yes, AMHA will put # on their registration if you ask/provide.

Some of you may have horses chipped and not even know it. For instance, when Hunt House Farms was operational (lots of great horses there) They had their herd microchipped. I believe most were reported to AMHA. However.....

The reason was to be able to positively identify the animal themselves
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He said, if I'm at a show and a hired hand calls to say "the bay mare...etc, etc." well, I want to know which of the 12 bay mares it was!
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If you have a Hunt House horse, chances are very good they are chipped. Pass a reader over them and see....it can be reported to AMHA. In their neck, usually on left.
 
I know Tony Greaves is chipping all his. With him, it is almost a necessity. With that many horses, should anything happen to him, a chip is a good way to know which horse is which.

I know theives can remove the chip if they know it is there but they have to be pretty hardcore.

IF you decide to do it.....follow the directions and put all the chips in the same place. What good would it be to have all your horses chipped in all different places? No one would think to scan the entire horse to find out if they are chipped.
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My big horses are both chipped in their necks. I can't remember which chip, I think they are Home Again chips. Last time I had them checked, they hadn't migrated and were still doing their thing.

I don't know if it's the same now, but years ago when I had these horses chipped, the vet told me that each chip manufacturer made it's own reader. If a different brand of reader was used, the info would not come up. Although maybe it could detect that there was a chip in there? I don't know. I do wish there was a universal reader for them though. That's the only thing that's kept me from getting all of my animals chipped. Maybe there is now.

When I was breeding dogs, all my dogs were chipped and their chip # and registration # was tatooed on their inner thighs, just in case. Wouldn't work for horses though I suppose.

Didn't I hear that a law was passed (maybe it was a local/state law?) that all slaughter houses that handled horses had to scan them for chips before slaughter? This also would've been a while back.
 
yep ive both mine done, i just got my wee mare done christmas eve, its very quick, he gives them a local anisthetic in the neck then injects the chip its about the size of a grain of rice, ,i would have everything done
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micro chip, tattoo, branding, ect ect lol, id also have security cameras up, dogs patroling, electric fences, id hate anything to happen to them,ive had the travellers stop and ask me were i keep them, YEH LIKE ID TELL
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