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Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
Apply to control wild birds for air safety, conservation, public health and safety or to prevent disease or agricultural damage.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Know how to stun or kill poultry, rabbits and hares on small-scale farms.
Apply to control wild birds, including the lesser black-backed gull and herring gull, to conserve plants and animals or protect public health and safety.
Apply for a licence to take or kill seals in rivers and find out how to report your actions.
How to unload, keep, move, handle, restrain, stun and kill animals not meant for human consumption.
Apply for a certificate of competence to slaughter or kill animals under Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (WATOK) regulations.
Apply for a temporary certificate of competence (CoC) to slaughter or kill animals under Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (WATOK) regulations.
Form to apply for a licence or certificate of competence to slaughter or kill animals.
Apply for a licence to disturb, kill or take protected birds or their eggs for science, education or conservation and find out how to report your actions.
Guidance on animal welfare for slaughterhouses, knacker's yards, small-scale producers and private individuals.
As a group of fisheries, apply for a licence to control cormorants causing serious damage within a defined area or catchment.
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