Animals

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Everyone is responsible for treating animals well. Learn more about animal welfare, veterinary medicines, pet food, animal feed, and slaughtering requirements.

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Animal welfare

Regulations, codes, pest management, advisory committees, animals in research and testing

National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme

Requirements for tagging cattle and deer

Mycoplasma bovis disease eradication programme

What M. bovis is, situation report, support and advice for farmers, compensation information, how to contact us

Foot-and-mouth disease response plans

About FMD and preparing for an outbreak

Veterinary medicines

Guidance, registering, authorising, manufacturing, selling, using, and more

Growth hormones

Using hormonal growth promotants, meeting requirements, your responsibilities

Pet food, animal feed, and nutritional supplements

Selling, manufacturing, and using. Plus legislation, COPs, and organisations

Animal feed: preventing disease transfer

Ruminant feed regulations, control porgrammes, labelling feed, food waste to pigs, offal to dogs

Vertebrate toxic agents: making, selling, and using

Authorising, manufacturing, selling, and using animal poisons

Slaughtering requirements

Animal status declaration, stand down periods for ACVMs, rules for homekilled meat, using sheep grazed in vineyards for meat

Dropped hock syndrome

Background, causes, knowing the signs of the condition

Protecting pet rabbits from caliciviruses

Types of caliciviruses, vaccinations, how it spreads

Exporting live animals

Livestock, bees, poultry, pets, semen, and embryos