Keeping farmed animals
Services
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Apply for a county parish holding (CPH) number
Use this form to apply for a CPH number for land you use to keep livestock in England.
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Poultry (including game birds): registration rules and forms
How and when you must register as a poultry or game bird keeper and how to register voluntarily (if you keep birds, such as chickens, as pets)
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Apply for temporary use of land or buildings to keep livestock
Use this form to apply for a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number. This is to use land or buildings to keep livestock for less than a year.
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TB restricted cattle: application for movement licence in England
Form to apply for a licence to move TB restricted cattle to or from holdings in England.
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Register as a cattle keeper with the British Cattle Movement Service
How to register or re-register your holding with the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS), what happens next and what to do if your details change.
Guidance and regulation
- Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS)
- Certify an export health certificate
- Get an export health certificate
- Apply for an export health certificate
- Register land you use to keep livestock
News and communications
- Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England
- South West farmers banned from owning animals following two successful APHA prosecutions
- Rural Payments Agency update - April 2023
- Bird keepers must maintain scrupulous biosecurity standards as housing measures set to be lifted
- APHA Fees and Charges Review 2022/2023 Update
Research and statistics
- APHA disease surveillance monthly reports
- APHA animal disease surveillance focus articles
- Avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK
- Bovine TB: hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England
- Bovine TB: surveillance in wildlife in England
Policy papers and consultations
- Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
- Poultry and other captive birds: registration in Great Britain
- Bovine TB: comment on an application for a supplementary badger disease control licence, February 2023
- Bovine TB: Chief Veterinary Officer’s advice on early termination of 2021 badger disease control areas
- Mitigation strategy for avian influenza in wild birds in England and Wales
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- AHWBE: register of interests
- Bovine TB: compensation value tables
- Information on bTB (Kimblewick Hunt)
- VMD FOI requests received between 1 July and 31 December 2017
- Bovine TB testing in cattle
Organisations
Explore sub-topics
- Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB)
- Cattle deaths
- Cattle identification, registration and movements
- Deer farming
- Import and export of farmed animals
- Pig identification, registration and movements
- Poultry registration
- Reporting disease and disease outbreaks
- Sheep and goats identification, registration and movements
- Shows, fairs and markets
- Veterinary medicines