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.




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.




Guidance: Knacker’s yards and farms: restraining, stunning and killing animals

Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.