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How to keep and breed pigs, and your responsibilities for housing, feeding and looking after them.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
How to keep beef cattle and dairy cows on a farm, including your responsibilities for their food and housing.
Guidance on the main diseases that affect cattle, disease prevention and legal controls in place to protect cattle health.
How to keep rabbits on farms and your housing health and feed responsibilities.
Find out what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how to treat a charity's income for VAT and what VAT reliefs a charity can get on what it buys.
Contract documents for the 2016 Standard Civil Contract.
Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.
This collection brings together all documents relating to national minimum standards.
How to keep farmed goats, and your responsibilities for their health, housing and feed.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
A list of regulations through which the General Regulatory Chamber makes decisions, and the associated rights of appeal.
Details of DWP statistics that relate to the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Legislation ending exports of livestock for slaughter and fattening receives Royal Assent
How and when welfare checks must be made to assess if a sponsor is an appropriate host. Includes note taking and follow up visits.
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