Guidance: Knacker’s yard: unloading, handling and holding animals
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
Guidance: Slaughterhouses, knacker’s yards and farms: inspections and penalties
Know when your premises could be inspected, the powers inspectors have, and enforcement notices and penalties you could receive for sites that kill animals.
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.