The Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) requires Medway Council's Trading Standards team to record the movement of farm animals on and off farms.
Farmers should notify Trading Standards in writing, with exact details of the type and number of animals that are to be moved.
For more information contact Trading Standards:
- phone: 01634 333 333
- email: consumer.protection@medway.gov.uk
- write to: Trading Standards, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR.
People keeping farm animals as pets (for example, goats and pot-bellied pigs) must also provide this information.
View guidance and information on your obligations about animal movement records from GOV.UK.
Farm animal welfare
We enforce farm animal welfare and disease prevention on farms, during transportation and at markets.
The standards for transporting animals are strictly controlled to reduce the possibility of transmitting diseases such as foot and mouth.
Stock records at farms are checked by enforcement agencies such as the British Cattle Movement Service and controls are in place to regulate the disposal of animal carcasses.
In the past, farmers could just bury animal carcasses but now they have to be transported to rendering plants.
Animal by-products, such as meat trimmings from butchers shops, cannot be sent to landfill sites. These measures are in place to prevent the spread of diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE).
Find business advice at Business Companion or read more about about farm animal welfare on the DEFRA website.