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Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
How to keep farmed goats, and your responsibilities for their health, housing and feed.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing bristles, feathers, fur, hair and wool to Great Britain.
Rules and standards for running an approved breeding programme and keeping a breed book or register of purebred animals, hybrid pigs and germinal products.
When and how to test for salmonella if you breed broiler chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).
When and how to test for salmonella if you breed chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).
Guidance for vets on schmallenberg virus (SBV) from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Requirements for members of the poultry health scheme (PHS).
You should use this licence to move mammals from or to premises in a protection or surveillance zone where poultry or other captive birds are kept.
What cattle keepers must do when they import or move cattle into England or Wales, including passport and ear tagging rules.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when carrying out veterinary checks on live animals being imported to Great Britain.
Fees to have your consignment checked at a border control post by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing fish oil that is not for human consumption to Great Britain.
Register for licences to cage-trap and mark badgers (Meles meles) for vaccinating them against bovine tuberculosis (TB) to help prevent the spread of disease.
Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing apiculture products or by-products to Great Britain.
Poster for vets about the risks of African swine fever.
How to submit claims invoices to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) if you're an Official Veterinarian (OV) working in England or Wales.
Guidance for vets and animal keepers on what funding is available for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) testing of animals kept in zoos and safari parks in England, and when to notify APHA of suspected TB.
How ear tag manufacturers and suppliers must get cattle ear tags tested to meet Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) 44:2026.
Guidance to avoid human infection on farms and good farm practices to reduce human and animal health risks.
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