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The reason I say visible ID's won't work well has nothing to do with 
cool new technology. The system has to be supported by a database - 
hence data entry and data integrity become a significant requirement.  
With the chip, a reader can easily be built that will transfer the data 
automatically to a computer. There will be no issue about 
interpretation  or no need for someone to read a freeze brand correctly 
and manually enter it.  With the new generation of  RFID chips  a 
scanner can scan a large number of horses at the same time and sort out 
the ID's and pass them on to the computer. These are the same chips that 
are going to eventually be put on everything in the a store (Walmart is 
pushing this concept but all will follow) and all you have to do is roll 
your cart past the scanner and it sorts it out.

The chip just makes more sense for a system that depends on reliable 
data to function.

Truman

Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> "
> Since chips are cool new technology, and are being used in some states 
> now, they will probably win.  I just like the visible marks for theft 
> deterrent.
>
> By the way, if the thief is sophisticated he can locate the chip, 
> crush it and then insert a new one.  No method is perfect.  It should 
> be possible to obliterate and make a Kyro Kinetics freeze mark 
> unreadable, but the coding system is such that it would be extremely 
> difficult to make it look like a different mark.


--

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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