Guidance and regulation

Register to keep up to 49 birds, including any you’re keeping as pets.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 21 March 2024

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.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 4 others
• Updated: 6 July 2023

Details of poultry establishments who are approved members of the Poultry Health Scheme (PHS).

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 30 April 2024

When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 4 others
• Updated: 1 August 2018

How poultry producers can join and pay fees for the Poultry Health Scheme, and how to pay fees to become a PHS approved laboratory.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 21 September 2023

Find out when and how to take samples, and what happens if one of your flocks tests positive.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 8 February 2016

Find out when and how to take samples for testing, and what happens if one of your flocks tests positive.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 February 2016

When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you breed turkeys, and what happens if a flock tests positive.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 4 others
• Updated: 1 January 2019