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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).
Form for a bird keeper to register chicks bred in captivity and confirm that closed rings or microchips have been fitted.
Form to register an establishment used for hatching egg and chick production.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Animal Welfare Committee opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries.
UK poultry statistics.
Use this general licence to rear chicks from the incubated eggs of captive-bred schedule 4 birds for a limited period.
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