In Practice: Simple to PlaceMicrochipping provides a swift, safe and permanent means of unique identification allowing an animal to be re-homed if it strays or is lost or stolen.
BackHome BioTec microchips conform to ISO standard and come in a preloaded implanter. This implanter is provided in a sterile sachet, and each sachet contains a set of 6 barcode labels corresponding to the unique chip enclosed.
The implanters are really easy to hold and use. They feature a no-return “click” system which ensures that the chip is not aspirated back into the needle after you have implanted it and before you withdraw the needle.
Pets should be microchipped mid-line between the shoulder blades, but it does differ depending on the animal in question. Horses are generally chipped in the nuchal ligament and this aids for consistency of scanning – the leaflet enclosed with our microchips has information about the most appropriate implanting sites for turtles and other exotics.
The microchips are quite small (about the size of a grain of rice) and are encased in a special bio-compatible polymer to prevent internal migration.
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