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Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
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 deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
How to be approved as a compartment that meets EU or GB enhanced standards by protecting your poultry farm or hatchery against disease.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Follow these steps to take when preparing to make a BIRDS declaration or Customs Clearance Request on the Customs Declaration Service.
Get a licence to catch certain birds trapped on food premises.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
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