You should report and tape-record all motions of sheep and goats on or off your holding.
Your holding is any location you keep the animals, for instance:
- a farm
- market
- home or a garden where you may keep a family pet animal
Following these guidelines implies that animals can be traced at all times to help avoid and include illness.
It’s your obligation to follow the guidelines to prevent charges such as a fine or prosecution.
What a ‘movement’ is
A motion occurs whenever animals are proceeded or moved off your holding. It can consist of moving them:
- to and from a various holding, for instance a farm
- to your holding when you purchase or import animals from another nation in the UK or from abroad
- from your holding when you offer or export animals abroad, consisting of through an assembly centre
- to a slaughterhouse
- to and from a showground, market or collection centre
You do not need to report a motion if it’s to or from:
- a veterinarian, for first aid
- land with the very same county parish holding (CPH) number
- typical land surrounding your holding that you can utilize for grazing, if it’s signed up with RPA as connected to your holding
- land surrounding your holding with a various CPH number, which the animals move in between regularly, on foot and without contact with other animals – you’ll require a standing entry in your holding register so that the plan is clear to a field officer on a website see
Example
If there is a gate open up to a neighbouring field with a various CPH number, which the owner lets you utilize to graze your animals daily – you just require to update your holding register with a record of the plan.
Who requires to report motions
Anyone who is accountable for keeping sheep and goats should report motions on and off their holding.
This can consist of:
- farmers, consisting of individuals who own sheep or goats as animals or for breeding functions
- market or showground operators
- collection or assembly centre operators
- somebody who is paid to keep sheep or goats on their land
- lairages (where it has a CPH number various from the animals’ area – for instance a slaughterhouse’s close-by field lairage)
- slaughterhouse operators
You do not need to report motions if you’re a:
- veterinarian
- haulier or transporter
If you’re a haulier or transporter, you should keep your own records to adhere to animal transportation well-being law. You can keep a copy of the LIS-1 motion file that features the animals – you’ll require to hand down any staying copies to the location keeper.
Before you move sheep and goats
There are actions you should follow prior to you move sheep or goats on to or off your holding.
Register as a keeper
If this is the very first time you’ll keep sheep or goats, even as animals, you should sign up as a keeper with:
- Rural Payments Agency (RPA) – you’ll get a CPH number
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) – you’ll get a herd or flock mark to utilize when you order ear tags or other tags (such as pastern bands) to recognize your animals
Keep a holding register
You’ll require to keep a holding register to tape-record the animals’:
- main recognition numbers
- motions
- deaths
You should update your holding register within 36 hours each time you move animals on to or off your holding.
Read the ‘general licence’ for moving sheep and goats
You need to understand the basic licence for moving sheep and goats in England. You require to adhere to the conditions in the licence to deserve to move your animals.
What you require to report
You require to report the:
- deal with the animals are sent to or from
- information of the haulier moving the animals (which they may finish on the LIS-1 motion file)
- overall variety of animals moved
You likewise require to consist of the animals’ main recognition numbers unless:
- you’re moving sheep to a location that has actually been authorized to scan and tape-record animals with electronic recognition (EID) tags and offer these back to you – these are referred to as main point recording centres (CPRCs) and consist of most markets
- you’re moving animals to a holding within your business where you’re still the keeper in everyday care and control of them – for instance, if you’re moving animals in between holdings you own or lease, that have various CPH numbers
- the animals are tagged with a massacre tag
When you move sheep and goats
You require to:
You likewise require to tape-record the motion in your holding register.
When to follow the ‘standstill rule’
The grinding halt guideline helps in reducing the spread of contagious illness. It uses to the motion of livestock, sheep, goats and pigs.
If you move livestock, sheep, or goats on to your land from a various holding, for 6 days after you should stagnate off your holding any:
If you move pigs on to your land from a various holding, you should stagnate any:
- livestock, sheep or goats off your holding for 6 days
- pigs off your holding for 20 days
Day 1 is the day after the animals’ arrival.
Example
If a sheep shows up on a Monday, day 1 is Tuesday and day 6 is Sunday. You can move animals of all types off your holding on day 7 – the following Monday.
You do not need to follow the grinding halt guideline if you’re moving animals straight to massacre, consisting of to a red animals market (slaughter-only market).
There are some other exemptions – check out the assistance on when you may be exempt from following standstill guidelines.
If you require help or suggestions, call the Defra Rural Services helpline and pick the APHA alternative.
When you import or export sheep or goats
The motion of sheep or goats into or out of England should be reported.
You should likewise tape-record the motions in your holding register.
Read the assistance on:
If you require help or suggestions
You can get aid with reporting motions from LIS, consisting of:
- how to utilize the online system
- developing or finishing motion files
- utilizing the online holding register
- remedying any recording and reporting errors
