Poultry registration

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Register as a keeper of 50 or more poultry or other captive birds

How to register if you keep 50 or more birds, including any you keep as pets.
Meat chicken notification

Form for poultry keepers to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency of chickens kept for meat production.

Register as a keeper of less than 50 poultry or other captive birds
- Detailed guide
- 4 March 2026
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Update your kept bird record
- Detailed guide
- 19 August 2025
- Animal and Plant Health Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Laying hens and flocks: poultry testing for salmonella
- Detailed guide
- 6 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
Salmonella: test your broiler flock chickens
- Detailed guide
- 10 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
Salmonella: test your breeding chickens
- Detailed guide
- 11 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)

19 March 2024Press release

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government

Poultry and other captive birds: registration in Great Britain
- 30 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 31 May 2023