Guidance: Red and white meat slaughterhouses: standard operating procedures
What you need standard operating procedures for, the role of animal welfare officers, livestock unit limits and record keeping in slaughterhouses.
Guidance: Slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares on farms for small-scale suppliers
Know how to stun or kill poultry, rabbits and hares on small-scale farms.
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.