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How to keep farmed goats, and your responsibilities for their health, housing and feed.
How to keep rabbits on farms and your housing health and feed responsibilities.
Webinars about what you can do to protect the health and welfare of animals you keep or work with from notifiable and reportable animal diseases.
Guidance explaining the different categories of animal by-products, how they should be used or disposed of, and where this can be done.
This manual helps practitioners in local authorities and the police in England and Wales in dealing with dog-related incidents.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Supplementing the guidance contained in the Standards of Modern Zoo Practice.
Apply to register, renew, or vary a Veterinary Homeopathic Remedy.
How to keep farmed deer healthy and your responsibilities for deer health, housing and handling.
This booklet highlights the welfare issues and reminds producers of the important key points in preventing and/or dealing with problems.
This document sets down how inspection and approval is carried out in the United Kingdom.
The code provides game farmers with information on how to meet the welfare needs of their animals, required in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
Find an approved control post to rest livestock being imported to, exported from, or transiting through Great Britain.
This booklet shows how the technique of body condition scoring can contribute to good husbandry, welfare and management of beef cows.
Published standards for regulatory work 2023/24
This booklet is intended to describe the main causes of heat stress in poultry.
Ventilation within your vehicle is important to remove the heat and moisture produced by animals during transport.
This booklet examines the fire dangers which are commonly found on farms and identifies simple ways in which risks can be reduced.
This document sets out the broad governance framework within which the VMD and Defra operate.
You can appeal against certain decisions made by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) that affect you.
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