There are a few companies that sell the chips (they are usually targeted as mentioned toward dogs and cats) The chips average about 12-15 bucks each, and you can after injecting them send the information into the company that sells them to have it logged. You can also order a scanner to scan them yourself. The last time I looked into it there were 2 types of scanners available, 1 which would only read the chips from that particular vendor (around 100 bucks for that scanner) or another which would read 2 or more types of chips. (I believe this one was around 200)



If I ever get to the point I have high end animals in my collection I won't hesitate on having them chipped if nothing else to add one more layer of fraud/theft protection.
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Randall L Turner Jr.

Boas make the world go round.

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• Microchipping, or PIT tagging - bigdnutz, Mon Mar 13 12:49:30 2006
• I have looked into it... - ChrisGilbert, Mon Mar 13 14:12:02 2006
• RE: I have looked into it... - rainbowsrus, Mon Mar 13 14:44:23 2006
• True... - ChrisGilbert, Mon Mar 13 15:19:10 2006
• RE: True... - rainbowsrus, Mon Mar 13 16:37:45 2006
• I think there are... - ChrisGilbert, Mon Mar 13 17:37:41 2006
• RE: Microchipping, or PIT tagging - Randall_Turner, Mon Mar 13 15:28:42 2006
• RE: Microchipping, or PIT tagging - pythonis, Mon Mar 13 16:12:20 2006
• I did it!! - bigdnutz, Tue Mar 14 16:21:10 2006