THE 2024 Equine Census will be taken next Saturday night, November 30th.

All horse keepers are required by the Department of Agriculture to complete a census return - either in writing or online - or risk losing their equine premises registration number.

In order to improve equine traceability, the Department has introduced a new system which makes it “critically important” that horse keepers make an equine census return.

Failure to return a census or, submission of a nil return, will result in an equine premises registration number (EPRN) being made inactive on the Department’s systems which may in future prevent keepers of equines from being able to register foals, export and sell horses.

Where EPRNs are deactivated, those keepers, who intend to keep horses in the future, will have to reapply to their regional veterinary office to reactivate their EPRN.

Web: gov.ie/equinecensus2024