Vaccination and Micro Chipping Update - Survey Included
Thursday, 8 November 2007VACCINATION and MICROCHIPPING 8-11-2007
Following a meeting in Orange last Tuesday between the EFA and DPI we can advise members of the following:
Amber and Green Zone horses which will be competing in 2008 need to be both vaccinated and micro chipped at owners’ expense by private vets.
EFA is undertaking a survey which Vicki Burgess has circulated on behalf of the EFA to help ascertain vital information regarding horses on properties around NSW. Click here for survey.We need to vaccinate and microchip all horses on each property where there is a horse wishing to compete in 2008. We need to know the numbers of horses on each property because we must order the appropriate doses of vaccine and microchips.Please fill in the survey as soon as you can.
We are still in discussion with DPI about the situation of horses on infected properties. Although in most cases all horses on the property contracted the disease, DPI was not able to test on all properties infected. This particularly applies in the Hawkesbury where too many properties and horses were infected for the resources available to DPI. This means that it is likely that all horses on infected properties will need blood testing to prove 'seropositive status' before they can compete. Once established this status will last for a period of 9 months. Then the horse will need to be vaccinated if it is to remain in competition. This outcome is not what we had hoped, but it is realistic.
The administrative difficulties of sorting out which properties were tested and which were infected but not tested is a lengthy undertaking. It is likely to mean that competition is very significantly delayed. The amount of paperwork involved for event organisers sorting out the differing immune status of horses is also very confronting. EFA recognises that the cost of a blood test now is a further impost on a fairly delicate financial tightrope but the alternative is very significant delay in events being up and running.
At this stage it is our advice that members wanting to take part in competition in 2008 should arrange for their horses to be blood tested and micro chipped if they were infected and vaccinated and micro chipped if they were not infected. That advice applies to all zones.
Thanks for your understanding and support in this effort to get the industry back on its feet.
EFA NSW
posted by Horse Deals at
8:23 am
2 Comments:
Why after all this time is one part of the industry going to allow for further difficulty in controlling the virus?
Who gave the EFA permission to effectively further destroy our confidence in the effective elimination of EI to all of our animals. Ponies, Draft horses, mares, stallions etc.
Is the EFA going to pay for horses that are next door that are going to be immunised & microchipped. Is the EFA going to have the other horses immunised at the same time??
And what about our friends who come to visit us on their horses & ponies????
Here we go again more division with in the horse industry now by those who say they represent us looks like the EFA is finaly going to get its way and only have the wealthy competing dressage,showjumping and eventing and turn it into an eletist sport
Well done EFA what a selfish self centred attitude
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