Correction to Feb. 2010 Minutes
The following motion was omitted from the approved
and printed July 2009 National Board of Directors Meeting Minutes. The July
2009 Board minutes were amended at the February 2010 Board Meeting to include
this motion...
Add to P.55, rule 43. Permanent Height Card - "PHC" A.1. In addition,
ponies may be inspected for permanent Height Cards at a state POA show at
a time and place as previously advertised following the same rules of the
official POA Rule Book. The state that wishes to sponsor this must previously
advertise that this will be available and be responsible to see that the
necessary Director, past Director(s) and National Inspectors are present
and approved in order to do the PHCs. The POAC would not incur any expense
in seeing the necessary inspectors are present, it is the sponsoring state's
responsibility. This PHC document passed in July 2009 is retroactive to January
1, 2010.
CEM
Outbreak and Canadian Restrictions
In December 2008, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture
announced that a Quarter Horse stallion tested positive
for Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM),
a foreign animal disease not found in the United States,
during routine testing for international semen shipment.
Contagious Equine Metritis is a transmissible, exotic
venereal disease in horses which usually results
in infertility in mares and, on rare occasions, can cause
mares to spontaneously abort. Infected stallions exhibit
no clinical signs but can carry the CEM bacteria for
years.
Read
more at the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection
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