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How to get a licence to breed dogs, and the conditions you must meet.
Rules and standards for running an approved breeding programme and keeping a breed book or register of purebred animals, hybrid pigs and germinal products.
How to get a licence to breed dogs in Wales, and the conditions you must meet.
Recognised breed societies for bovine, ovine, porcine and caprine species, and recognised breed operations for hybrid breeding pigs.
How to get a licence to breed dogs in Scotland, and the conditions you must meet.
EU breeding body programmes for bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine and equine species that have been approved to extend their geographical territory into the UK.
Getting official recognition to trade animals and germinal products with other countries on zootechnical terms.
The Precision Breeding Working Group aims to facilitate routes to market for precision bred plant products.
Recognised EU breed societies for bovine, ovine, porcine, equine and caprine species.
Form to register an establishment used for hatching egg and chick production.
Farm Animal Welfare Committee overview of the animal welfare implications of selective breeding strategies and breeding technologies.
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.
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
Genomic prediction of breeding values could improve selection, reduce costs and provide a platform that unifies breeding approaches
When and how to take samples from breeding chickens for the salmonella national control programme (NCP), and what happens if a flock tests positive.
These experimental statistics on breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures were collected by the Home Office under the EU Directive (2010/63/EU).
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