[RC] equinepassport / health certs - Kearby, Kate G Civ 748 CBSG/IS
Several states do the equine passport program. Ours is
$30 and it’s good for 6 months. You do have to have your horse
chipped or branded or tattooed. But rather than having to remember and run to
the vet and pay $10 each time if you are going out of state more than 3 times
in the next 3 months it’s worth it.
I know we have to have health certs whenever we cross state
lines and when the event we are going to requires. I know that several
states can, quarantine your horses and keep them til coggins comes back and
charge you for the board and vet work. I know one time we missed an open
inspection station going into texas and the hiway patrol stopped us. Better
to have them than not and I don’t think of them as expensive. With the
ailments going around more lately I’m glad not only boarders but
facilities are checking coggins more regular. It’s not so much the
coggins that I think is valuable, it’s that it means the horses around
you have seen a vet and are more likely to NOT pass anything on to yours cause
their people care about their’s and all other horses.
We live in Oklahoma and in
the next month we will be in Arkansas, Kansas and Texas.
The vet is coming tomorrow to chip and passport our 3 travelling horses. Shanee
is 28 and may go to the local trails 2 or 3 times a year, she gets her coggins
every March with the others. .
