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Information for poultry farmers about inspections the Animal and Plant Health Agency carries out on their facilities, operating procedures and records.
Find out how you can use manure, guano and digestive tract content, including how to store and move them.
Monthly UK statistics on the number of cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered.
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the welfare implications of different methods and systems for the catching, carrying, collecting and loading of poultry.
Animal bites and pasteurella infections information for healthcare staff.
Advice to give pregnant women on infections that can be transmitted via contact with animals that are or have recently given birth.
The rules and processes cattle keepers must follow to ensure cattle can be traced at all times.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
What a cattle movement is, what you need to do before you move cattle, and when you must not move cattle.
This booklet shows how the technique of body condition scoring can contribute significantly to good husbandry and management of dairy cows.
We maintain an online database of all bovine animals in Great Britain called the Cattle Tracing System (CTS). BCMS is part of the Rural Payments Agency .
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
What cattle keepers must record and report when they move cattle, bison or buffalo and the deadlines.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you breed turkeys, and what happens if a flock tests positive.
What cattle keepers must do when they import or move cattle into England or Wales, including passport and ear tagging rules.
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