{"id":2397,"date":"2009-07-02T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2009-07-02T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:12:50","slug":"export-conditions-for-horses-from-texas-competing-at-the-calgary-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/export-conditions-for-horses-from-texas-competing-at-the-calgary-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPORT CONDITIONS FOR HORSES FROM TEXAS COMPETING AT THE CALGARY STAMPEDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just received the following information for horses moving to Canada from Texas\u00a0for the Calgary Stampede.\u00a0 More stringent regulations are in place for Texas horses, due to\u00a0vesicular stomatitis (VS).\u00a0\u00a0 If you plan to haul your horse, PLEASE ensure that you\u00a0can meet ALL the requirements.\u00a0 Carla Everett, Texas Animal Health Commission, Public Info<\/em><\/p>\n

The horses must be accompanied by a USDA Official Zoosanitary Export Certificate (VS 17-140 or 17-145), issued by a USDA accredited veterinarian, and endorsed by a USDA Veterinarian.<\/p>\n

Form VS 17-140 or 17-145 must contain the following statements:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 The horse(s) being presented for importation have been either resident in the United States since birth, or for at least sixty (60) days immediately prior to the date of exportation and have met all of the import requirements of the United States.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 The horses were inspected by a USDA accredited veterinarian within ten (10) days preceding the date of importation, and found to be free from any communicable diseases.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 To the best of the knowledge and belief of the USDA accredited veterinarian, the horses were not exposed to any communicable disease within sixty (60) days preceding the date of inspection.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 The horses were tested negative for equine infectious anemia using the agar gel immunodiffusion test (Coggins) or ELISA test within six (6) months immediately preceding the date of exportation.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 The horse(s) have not been on a premises where\u00a0Taylorella equigenitalis<\/em> has been isolated during the 60 days immediately preceding exportation to Canada, or on a premises currently under quarantine or investigation for contagious equine metritis (CEM).\u00a0 Any mares in the shipment have not been bred naturally to a stallion resident on a premises affected with CEM or under quarantine or investigation for CEM.\u00a0 Any mares in the shipment have not been inseminated with semen from a stallion positive for CEM or a stallion resident on a CEM-positive premises or under quarantine or investigation for CEM.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 The horse(s) showed no clinical signs of CEM on the day of inspection.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 During the previous twenty-one (21) days, the horse(s) in this shipment has\/have not been in the State of Missouri.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Regarding vesicular stomatitis:<\/p>\n

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  1. The animal is free from clinical signs of vesicular stomatitis.<\/li>\n
  2. The animal has not been on a premises in a county affected with vesicular stomatitis or travelled through an infected county within 21 days prior to export.<\/li>\n
  3. The premises of origin is located at least 25 kilometers (15 miles) from any premises currently under quarantine for vesicular stomatitis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Delete as appropriate)
    \nd.\u00a0\u00a0 The animal tested negative to a c-ELISA test taken within 10 days prior to export.<\/p>\n

    OR<\/p>\n

    The animal was positive to a c-Elisa test but tested negative on re-test with a complement fixation (CF) test conducted on the same sample within 10 days prior to export.<\/p>\n

    9.\u00a0 The horse(s) are fit for transport.\u00a0 On the day of inspection, no horse has an infirmity, illness, injury or any other condition that could be aggravated when the animal is being transported, causing the animal to suffer.\u00a0 The exporter has been advised that any deterioration in condition before departure may render the animal ineligible for transport.\u00a0 The shipment may be refused entry to Canada if the animal or manner of shipping is found to be in contravention of transport regulations under the Health of Animals Regulations at the time of presentation for import to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We have just received the following information for horses moving to Canada from Texas\u00a0for the Calgary Stampede.\u00a0 More stringent regulations are in place for Texas horses, due to\u00a0vesicular stomatitis (VS).\u00a0\u00a0 If you plan to haul your horse, PLEASE ensure that you\u00a0can meet ALL the requirements.\u00a0 Carla Everett, Texas Animal Health Commission, Public Info The horses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}