Horses
All horses, including ponies, donkeys, exotic equines such as zebras and crossbreeds, must have their own horse passport.
A horse (including weaned foals) must be accompanied by a valid horse passport when it is moved:
- for competition purposes
- for breeding purposes
- out of Scotland
- to the premises of a new keeper
- for veterinary treatment
It is an offence for any person to sell a horse without a passport. For all new horse passport applications, the horse must be micro-chipped.
Horse passports are a means of identifying individual animals and making sure horses treated with certain medicines do not end up as food for human consumption.