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After the EI incursion in 2007 saw 1000’s of horses across NSW and QLD
microchipped, and the EFA followed suit by introducing microchipping of registered horses,
it was suggested that we need a national horse ID system.
Early in 2010 US magazine The Horse asked its readership if they thought the USA should have
a national Horse ID system. Readers responded with a resounding “No” vote (64% of
respondents did not want a National Horse ID system, compared to nearly 27% that did).
We thought it would be interesting to see how Australian Horse people responded to the same
question.
Early results show 75.7% of those polled in Australia think a National Horse ID system would
be a good idea. The “No” and “Not Sure” votes are equal at 12.1% of the vote each.
When asked what type of Horse ID people would prefer the number one choice, with 68.1% of
the vote, was microchipping.
Similar to compulsory microchipping of cats and dogs, a National Horse ID System could
assist with reuniting lost / stolen horses with their owners, would help in animal welfare
cases and could be beneficial for consistently proving identification of horses competing at
shows etc.
The second most popular choice of horse ID is freeze branding (12.7%) followed by DNA
(6.6%), Society Papers (4.8%), Iris Scanning (3.6%), Passports (3%) and “Other” (1.2%).
If a horse identification program was to be implemented microchipping would
be the best way to go in my opinion, for the following reasons, it would be
uniformal especially if was a Federal govt funded project administered by the
States, less confusion as with branding and the other methods used today.
Chip should be injected at the same site on all equines though.
It would prove who the real owner is an if a horse is dumped you can trace the
Owner.
Good idea. But the logistics !!! How would it be enforced, who would be responsible for the
records, what would be the cost. How would the system work.
Way too many non-Thoroughbred horses are hard to trace their pedigree/past
ownership. All horse breeds need to enforce something like freeze branding.
If all horses had microchips it would benefit the racing industry and competition
horses. There would be no swapping over horses. Also good if horse lost or
stolen. Easily identifiable after tragedy like black Saturday. Mine are microchipped!
As long as the Governments subsides the cost otherwise people who have
horse/ponies for pleasure may not have their stock done and owning a horse
or a pony is not a cheap exercise.
Should not be compulsory until actual benefits in $ terms are addressed.
Would add considerable additional costs to small horse businesses with little
discernable benefit. If breed societies could be convinced to rely in DNA or
microchip instead of papers in cases of lost reg papes would be more in
support of it for registered horses. Cases of lost and stolen horses are so rare
does not justify penalising all horse owners with the costs of a system only
breed and registered horse owners will benefit from. We need yet more nanny
state regulation.
It should be compulsory
great idea. Would help in preventing and finding stolen horses. Might help stop
ppl lying about a horses age in comps. and tracing horses with past illnesses.
microchipping is by far the kindest form of identification. Brands can be
tampered with and documents can be forged. The system should be national
so that equipment (readers) can be standardised. The next question is
whether it is compulsory or not. I think compulsory ID's would be extremely
hard to bring in.
It should be a good idea if it is worked out correctly, and a national data base
which is kept up to date. he only problem would be when transferring
ownership and new owners not doing etc.
I think microchipping as well as DNA testing would be good.
I think this is a great idea, it would it a lot easier to find lost and stolen horses
and to settle ownership disputes.
I believe either microchipping and/or DNA should be recorded, as the more
information you have on/about your horse, the better you will be if anything
(hopefully nothing) happens to your horse, you have their details on file in 2
different forms
Need a system to be affordable. Owners of more than 1 horse might not be
able pay for microchipping of their animals.
Should be compulsory for lost horses to be checked for microchip, otherwise it
would be useless. Microchipping can be done on any horse, doesn't have to
be eligible for a registration...
I think it would be a great idea to have some sort of national id system. A lot of
breed registries now require horses to be DNA typed, and as my horses are
all registered quarter horses I do not have a problem with it. However, people
with unregistered horses may not be too happy with the costs involved.
I agree from a welfare and stolen horse point of view, it would be great. Also
allow people to find out their horses bloodlines? And real ages. I can only see
the benefits
It greatly disturbs me and many excellent horsemen and women – (that some) Horse Societies
are still encouraging
fire branding of tiny foals <8months old. Their breeding practices
are bad/ignorant enough but this mutilation by unregistered branders is an
abomination even to other registered branders. The women and men who run
the Committees all make money out of this practice and run the Shows and
people think they actually ID’ing their horses and do not want to make a fuss
because then they will lose at the next Show. Many of the brands disappear
so they burn them again. As everyone knows they can be so easily modified.
The Federal Government was going to cover this in their new Animal Welfare
Policy but there are still some die-hards who actually believe anti-fire branding
horsepeople are just being soft.
If there was to be an ID system I think the best way would be the microchip.
this is used for cats and dogs and is very effective if the animal becomes lost.
Will people actually do this tho? for the horses that are registered with
societies, some are dna'd, branded that may help but the microchip would
reveal all if people keep it up to date.
This could significantly impact horse theft and also prosecution re neglect of
animals as any time a vet has contact ID could be checked and a national
system would pick up information re ownership and responsibility re
prosecutions for mal treatment. other animals have had this system for
years and such things have assisted when lost, stolen or mistreated.
A national ID of microchipping is the best way so horses that go to the sales,
Vets, shows and knackery have to be compulsory scanned this would prevent
theft on a greater level. It is compulsory to do dogs and cats to be registered
with councils I think it is a great idea.
Microchipping would be best and to have a national registery which could tell
you the horses date of birth, breed, sire and dam would be excellent.
Microchipping is very efficient.
Some horses are not able to registered with a society as they are cross bred
or at least one parent did not have papers, so the offspring does not have
papers. I believe in this that the easiest way to identify horses is by
microchipping and this is an easy to do thing for all general horse owners as
well as stud and performance horse owners. I believe that if all horses are
microchipped it will be easy to identify a horse as the microchip number can
be linked to society papers, and DNA testing and any other requirements as
per society. Not all societies require some sort of branding and in some cases
papers are not enough, for eg; I have a jet black brumby and I know of at least
2 others that have been domesticated that are also jet black and about the
same height.
This should not be compulsory but it would be good to have one common data
base/register for those that wish to ID their horses. Most of our horses are
microchipped, mainly done during EI but their m/c numbers are not recorded
anywhere except with us. We have chosen to have our foals m/c since then
and they are recorded with the CCHS and the m/c registry (as with cats &
dogs) but I feel a national equine database would be better.
why are horses not registered with local council, like dogs and cats? Seems
like an easy way to keep track of them.
It already costs so much to keep horses I don’t think alot of people can afford
the extra cost. Most horse are already registered through a breed society why
can’t we just use their registration papers as their ID.
Horse ID is necessary to be able to track movements of horses quickly. It is
also a useful tool in Horse Welfare. I think a combination of ID's are needed
with Microchipping and DNA.
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