RC: Re: Re: BRAND INSPECTION IN CALIFORNIA (long)

[Linda Flemmer <bluwolf@earthlink.net>]

Lif,

Not that I plan to travel from WV to NM anytime soon, but there are no
brand inspections in the East.  Only one of my horses are
freeze-branded.  What would I do besides carrying registration papers
and health documents?

Linda

Lif Strand wrote:
> 
> In NM & some other states it's the law to brand all livestock, including
> horses.  If you get caught by a livestock inspector in a bad mood, you can
> wind up with an impounded horse & spending $$$.  Freeze marks are accepted
> as a brand, as of course a registered brand is.  But microchips are not.
> 
> You also have to have "traveling papers" in NM & some other states - here
> it's a card you have to carry with you when your horse is off your
> property.  In order to get one of the cards, the horse has to be inspected
> by the brand inspector.  No brand, no card.  Of course lots of people don't
> bother - we don't have all our horses done, but then we don't take those
> (retirees, horses too young to ride) off the property either.  Lif
> 
> At 07:56 PM 1/15/00 , Spencer wrote:
> >BTW, most horses are no longer branded due to cosmetic concerns.
> 
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