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How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
How to prevent the introduction and spread of animal and bird disease by following good hygiene and biosecurity standards.
Find bird flu disease control zones and the rules you must follow in each zone.
How to spot African swine fever, what to do if you suspect it and how to stop it spreading.
When you need to use a movement licence and designated slaughterhouses for bluetongue restricted premises.
Use this service to apply for a licence to vaccinate animals against bluetongue or move birds or animals onto or off premises in disease control zones.
Find out about compensation arrangements for animals culled by the government as part of certain disease control strategies.
How to spot Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
How to spot Newcastle disease, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
Poultry valuation tables outline the value of poultry in Great Britain.
How to be approved as a compartment that meets EU or GB enhanced standards by protecting your poultry farm or hatchery against disease.
How to spot contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
Find out which premises are approved to Great Britain standards in the compartmentalisation scheme and get their approval numbers.
How to spot surra (Trypanosoma evansi), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
You should use this licence to move table eggs into, within or out of a protection or surveillance zone.
Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.
Mark which must be used to identify poultry meat from a protection zone.
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