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I do have a question (aside form the horror of having yet one more 
venue of government interference in our lives) - is the provision that 
whenever a horse leaves its home, t  must be reported - is this still 
part of the proposal? If so, we would never support this proposal  - I 
cannot FATHIM having to do this every time we rode a horse off the 
property. I can hardly remember to log my wormings into my own 
computer. Is this still part of the proposed plan?
S


if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space

-----Original Message-----
From: Sisu West Ranch <ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [RC]   coggins - customary






Hopefully I will not start the "flame war".  This difficulty of horse 
ID is
a good reason for the national animal identification system.  See the
article in the most recent AHA magazine. about the adoption of a chip,
standards etc. 
 

Looking down the road, the readers will come down in price.  There is 
no
reason for them to be more than $50 if mass produced.  Then any person, 
with
no special horse knowledge, can run the scanner down the horse's neck, 
and
compare the number with he number on the coggins papers.  The 
investment in
a scanner (the cost could often be shared among RM's in a state or 
area.)
would be well worth it and would speed up the whole process. 
 

As has been briefly mentioned, you do not want to have your horse at a
gathering with a positive horse.  At the minimum, you will face a long
quarantine, and the cost of multiple Coggins.  The regs about trail 
rides
etc. vary greatly.   In WI whenever two or more horses meet by
prearrangement, coggins must be examined and records kept for a year.  
In MN
you only need to do this if it is a contest that gives prizes.  That 
is, a
recreational trail ride is exempt, even if you pay a fee but a distance
riding competition is not because of ribbons etc. 
 

IN MN and WI it is common practice for ride managers to request a copy 
of
Coggins to file.  When I managed when people showed up only with 
original I
made them copy the relevant info from the coggins paper and filed that. 
It
was enough of a pain to copy by hand that I don't think anyone did it 
more
than one time. 
 

Ed 

Ed & Wendy Hauser 

2994 Mittower Road 

Victor, MT 59875 
 

(406) 642-9640 
 

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us  

 

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