Guidance: Knacker’s yard and on-farm killing: standard operating procedures
How to unload, keep, move, handle, restrain, stun and kill animals not meant for human consumption. read more
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Guidance: White meat slaughterhouses: unloading, handling, holding, restraining, stunning and killing
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs. read more
Guidance: Slaughter poultry, livestock and rabbits for home consumption
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home. read more
Guidance: Get a certificate of competence or licence to slaughter or kill animals
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply. read more
Guidance: Bird flu: rules on meat produced from poultry and farmed game birds originating in disease control zones
Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone. read more