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The rules and processes cattle keepers must follow to ensure cattle can be traced at all times.
The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.
It’s important that you keep up-to-date records of the income and expenditure connected with your company.
The rules you must follow to ensure sheep and goats, including those kept as pets, can be traced to prevent and contain disease.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
What to include in a holding register, including how to record pig movements and taking an annual inventory.
Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
How to report and record pig movements and when to follow the standstill rule.
How to get a licence to keep animals for exhibition, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.
Disclosure and Barring Service's social media house rules outline how we will engage with customers and the behaviours we expect from users.
Form for a bird keeper to register chicks bred in captivity and confirm that closed rings or microchips have been fitted.
Form for a bird keeper to apply for a licence to keep a wild disabled bird without a ring.
How to meet expected welfare, health and safety standards in the horse industry if keeping horses for commercial purposes in the UK.
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