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Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
If you’re responsible for a farm animal you must make sure that you care for it properly.
Find out what happens when you report a notifiable animal disease and how to get support.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
How to spot African swine fever, what to do if you suspect it and how to stop it spreading.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Advice to give pregnant women on infections that can be transmitted via contact with animals that are or have recently given birth.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, including the suitability of pens, cages or hutches
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
Find out about compensation arrangements for animals culled by the government as part of certain disease control strategies.
Guidance and legislation covering pet welfare and animal cruelty.
Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.
Report a dead or injured animal such as a badger, fox or domestic pet found on the road
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