Sheep to be issued with passports

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Kyrgyzstan is preparing to roll out a new system under which the millions of sheep residing in the mountainous state will receive their own high-tech passport, state television reported.

First Deputy Prime Minister Akylbek Japarov says the government has drafted a bill to deliver cutting-edge passports to the nation's sheep.

"We are ready to make a passport for each sheep," he said in an address to Parliament.

"From their birth to their slaughter, it will be possible to recognise a sheep's pedigree by using laser scanning."

Ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished Central Asian country bordering China and Kazakhstan, is home to 4.25 million sheep, according to official government statistics.

Dzhalalidin Gaybulin, head of the National Centre of Quarantine and Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health, says the passports would help contain disease and urged authorities to go one step further.

"In Kyrgyzstan, every cow must obtain a passport in order to prevent the spread of dangerous infection to humans," he said.

The proposal also includes a system of insurance for sheep, which can be a major source of income for families in the mostly rural country.

-AFP

Stragely enough, a lot of their sheep farming industry has been guided by kiwis as part of our aid programs. Nearly went over and visited a kiwi run sheep venture to hunt some of the Ibex on the property, Timeing wasn't great though, with the outbreak of war in Afganistan.

When I was in Townsville recently ( isnt that a name for a town that only an aussie could think up ? )I was astounded at the amount of aussie mutton in the supermarket.

I could see it was Australian-grown by the lovebites all over it ......

What was an Aussie doing in the bush with his pants off wearing 3 condoms?

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with the outbreak of war in Afganistan.

Yes that would make things difficult

Actually our Government is also bringing in the passport system for our sheep.

It will just make it much easier for the Aussie immigration authorities when the escort agencies bring in their next batch.