Animal health leaflets
A specialist team is responsible for the enforcement of animal health and welfare law dealing with livestock.
You can view and download our animal health leaflets from the related documents section on this page.
If you would like to order any of our leaflets then please contact us.
Related documents
The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)
- Before buying hens (146KB)
- BSE testing - fallen cattle (135KB)
- Buying or selling of livestock (140KB)
- Calves at market (137KB)
- Casualty slaughter - guidance for farmers and hauliers (184KB)
- Cattle that have been refused passports (137KB)
- Cleansing and disinfection of vehicles carrying cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, racing pigeons and poultry (135KB)
- Construction of livestock transport vehicles (137KB)
- Deer carcase and offal disposal - farmed and wild (145KB)
- Farm animal transport journey times (140KB)
- Goats - records, identification and movement (145KB)
- Guidance for those who transport horses by road (145KB)
- Guidance notes on the registration and records of poultry (151KB)
- Guidance on food chain information (FCI) for calves (137KB)
- Guidance on the disposal of animal by-products and carcasses (141KB)
- Guidance on the welfare and handling of poultry at markets (251KB)
- Horse Passports (148KB)
- Keeping and retention of veterinary medicine records (158KB)
- Keeping pet pigs (144KB)
- The law regarding the keeping and movement of pigs (146KB)
- Livestock markets (140KB)
- Notice to all exhibitors of cattle both for showing and trade stands (135KB)
- Requirements for cattle identification (144KB)
- Responsible animal/pet ownership (141KB)
- Sheep - records, identification and movement (158KB)
- Sheep Scab (140KB)
- Slaughter of cattle for private consumption by the owner (138KB)
- Transport of farm animals (138KB)
- Transporting livestock by road (136KB)
- Tuberculosis - pre-movement testing of cattle (136KB)
- Welfare of Horses at Market (and Other Places of Sale) Order 1990 (137KB)