Practical, vet-written guides to marking charts, identification vocabulary and the passport process in Ireland. No fluff, just the rules and the shortcuts.
The Horse Sport Ireland marking chart is the page most passport applications live or die on. It looks simple, one silhouette and a handful of text box…
Passport charts are written in a controlled vocabulary. A clerk in a PIO office who has never seen the horse must be able to reconstruct it from the w…
From May to September the paperwork arrives faster than any practice can hand write it. Every foal born in Ireland needs a microchip, a marking chart …
A returned passport application costs the owner weeks and costs the practice unbillable time, and the reasons are remarkably consistent. Ask anyone pr…
Every equine in Ireland, horse, pony or donkey, must be identified with a microchip and an equine passport, regardless of whether it ever leaves the f…