Guidance: Red meat slaughterhouses: unloading, handling and holding animals

Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.




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.




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.




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.




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.