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How to register or re-register your holding with the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS), what happens next and what to do if your details change.
If you’re responsible for a farm animal you must make sure that you care for it properly.
Cattle keepers can use a continuation sheet when they need more space to record movements in a cattle passport.
This release presents statistics on the slaughter of cattle, sheep and pigs, dressed carcase weights and meat production in the United Kingdom.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Monthly UK statistics on cattle, sheep and pig slaughter and meat production.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Latest official statistics bringing together various sources of statistics relating to the incidence of TB in Cattle, Great Britain according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Forms to register a licensed finishing unit (LFU) in England and Wales for cattle from officially TB free herds.
Farm Animal Welfare Committee assessment of the welfare implications of inversion of cattle for religious slaughter and recommendations for a retention of a ban on this practice.
General licence for the movement of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and deer
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