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Who to contact if you keep livestock (including as pets) when your registered details change.
Sheep and goat owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move sheep or goats.
Access APHA reports, videos, publications and data on livestock, wildlife and small animals in England and Wales.
Advisory note from the UK Chief Veterinary Officer for veterinarians prescribing BTV-3 vaccines.
The tests you must arrange for bovine TB, what happens if your cattle test positive, when cattle must be slaughtered, and compensation.
How and when to identify pigs (livestock and pets) with ear tags, ear tattoos or slap marks so they can be traced.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
How to report pig movements, including how to use electronic animal movement licensing (eAML2).
How to get authorised as an OV, maintain your authorisation and set up a new practice, and what to do if you will be tuberculin (TB) skin testing.
How to spot bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
What you must record in your holding register (also known as a herd register or farm records), when you must do this and what you can use for your records.
Cattle keepers must tag a newborn calf, add its details to their holding register and register its birth within legal deadlines.
What a cattle movement is, what you need to do before you move cattle, and when you must not move cattle.
Apply for a specific licence to freeze or move germinal product from susceptible animals in bluetongue zones.
How to apply for a licence, when you need a licence, fees, licence conditions and records you must keep.
The signs of foot and mouth disease, what to do if you suspect it in your animals and measures to prevent its spread.
Technical information about the import requirements for POAO for human consumption, for use by vets, importers and border officials.
Find out about compensation arrangements for animals culled by the government as part of certain disease control strategies.
How to order official cattle ear tags, what to do if your animal is untagged, its tags have been damaged or it has been tagged incorrectly.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
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