I PMd you with more details. She’ll check for a lump tomorrow. 
Do you know his show name?
Make sure they scan both sides. US microchips to the left, I believe, but Euro to the right? Or vice versa. Something like that… but apparently, it can be missed bc some vets aren’t savvy enough to know to check both sides for foreign chip.
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US to the left, Europe to the right, and Canada occasionally puts them in the upper lip.
Fwiw I have a friend who’s FEI horse’s chip is by his right elbow. 
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WHAT? I had no idea. WHY?
No idea! I just know whenever we get Canadian bred TB babies down, we always need to scan their lips before chipping & registering them. There’s always 1 or 2 that have them.
How is this going?
Vet comes Thursday for vaccinations, so I won’t know until then. But I may get to ride him before then, which I’m really looking forward to!
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Update: despite having it on his list Thursday, the vet forgot to scan the microchip! 
But another client is a small animal vet and will try scanning with the one she uses on dogs and cats. It should work, right?
Yup. We have one and it’s quick and easy.
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Was that a chip migration (the elbow)? Or on purpose? I know that can happen with small animals but that seems less likely with a horse unless they totally missed the nuchal ligament?
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It was an imported horse, so they knew he was chipped. They never scanned him until his first FEI in the states, where the chip was nowhere to be found. Vet scanned his whole body in desperation and found it by the elbow!
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Odd. Our standardbreds have them in the neck.
I’ve never heard of chipping a horse anywhere other than the neck/wither
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the scanner should work IF IT has quad-read capability as there are at least four varations of chips
ISO chips are optimized for 134.2 in practice they are readable at 125 kHz and the “125 kHz” chips are readable at 134.2 kHz
in this link go to the section " Cross-compatibility and standards issues" then scroll down there is a chart of scanner types and their abilities to read various chips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(animal)
and yes chips can migrate
We have a chip reader that is specific to the chips that were implanted in our animals, we needed to have the reader for official use when transporting across governmental districts to verify the animal in the health papers is the correct animal
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I looked for more information about why they might have a chip in their lip and the Paulick report wrote an article a few years ago. Looks like it’s a specific type. Maybe just favored by the Canadian farm ours come from?
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So, this basically reads like a press release and is sponsored content (so, not surprised). That said, it sounds pretty cool. Vet friend tells me migration isn’t as big an issue in horses compared to small animals, but the temp check and coggins and other data is pretty neat, IMO. I’d be more interested to know what unaffiliated, non-sponsored third parties think… but it sounds promising!
I didn’t even realize it was ad content! I have replaced it with another, similar article that is not an ad.
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No worries! I worked in media for several years and am primed to click that. FWIW, vet friend thins the temp check thing is cool.
We used the thermal chips for the first time last year. I don’t think they’re that great.
They require a $$$ reader and it takes as long to scan as it does to actually temp them. Plus I had to remember to send a note with every dang horse to it’s new home/trainer that it had a thermo chip!
They were also sometimes a little off, either direction. Luckily it was consistent, so you’d still notice if the horse spiked a temp.
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Haven’t used them, but they sound promising!
