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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.
How to be approved as a compartment that meets EU or GB enhanced standards by protecting your poultry farm or hatchery against disease.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Apply to control wild birds, including the lesser black-backed gull and herring gull, to conserve plants and animals or protect public health and safety.
Use a licence to move poultry, poultry by-products, eggs, material or mammals in, out or within a bird flu disease zone.
Register to keep up to 49 birds, including any you’re keeping as pets.
Fees for testing commercial poultry flocks for salmonella and for laboratories to get approval to test for salmonella.
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
If you’re responsible for a farm animal you must make sure that you care for it properly.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you’re an egg producer, and what happens if a laying flock tests positive.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
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.
Use this form to apply for approval or re-inspection in the compartment scheme for either the EU standard or the Great Britain enhanced standard.
Find bird flu disease control zones and the rules you must follow in each zone.
Licences for gatherings of poultry or other captive birds.
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