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How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
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.
What you need standard operating procedures for, the role of animal welfare officers, livestock unit limits and record keeping in slaughterhouses.
How to unload, keep, move, handle, restrain, stun and kill animals not meant for human consumption.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
Reports the number of taser ‘uses’ as opposed to the number of taser ‘incidents’.
Reports the number of Taser ‘uses’ as opposed to the number of Taser ‘incidents’.
You need to have a licence to operate as a slaughterman in Northern Ireland
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
Know how to stun or kill poultry, rabbits and hares on small-scale farms.
You need a full or temporary Certificate of Competence to perform many of the tasks required in a slaughterhouse.
Advice given to government by the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (and its predecessor Council).
Product Recall for Vincenza Jewellery Pave Zircon Initial Cord Bracelet presenting a serious chemical risk.
Sets out the detail of laws the government plans to make, introducing new penalties for animal cruelty, and covering other animal welfare issues.
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