Monday, April 21, 2014

Mini-Microchips for Horses Get Thumbs Up

Thehorse.com - Full Article

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre
Apr 07, 2014

The techie trend toward tinier-than-tiny micro-anything has now hit the world of equine identification. Horses necessitating microchip identification—a requirement in many countries, including the entire European Union—can now receive a “mini-microchip” implant.

Roughly 70% the size of the standard microchip, the mini-microchip “obviously works very well” and has clear benefits for the horse, explained Christine Aurich, DVM, PhD, Head of the Graf Lehndorff Institute for Equine Science in Neustadt, Germany...

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http://www.thehorse.com/articles/33672/mini-microchips-for-horses-get-thumbs-up?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=health-news&utm_campaign=04-08-2014

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