Animal Plant Health Agency
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This guidance is for keepers of 50 or more poultry or other captive birds.
Theres different guidance to register as a keeper of less than 50 poultry or other captive birds in England and Wales.
You must register within one month of keeping poultry or other captive birds at any premises in England or Wales.
Youre breaking the law if you do not register.
If youve already registered, you do not need to register again.
Keeper of 50 or more poultry
Youll need this information to complete the form:
- your contact details
- details of the person or company that owns or rents your site
- your sites location and county parish holding (CPH) number - (find out how to get a permanentCPHnumber in England and Wales)
- details of the birds you keep and how you farm them (species, number you usually keep, what you keep them for, your farming system)
- how many birds of each species you usually keep each month (your stocking arrangements)
- a list of other livestock you keep on the site
Keeper of 50 or more other captive birds
Youll need this information to complete the form:
- your contact details
- details of the person or company that owns or rents your site
- your sites location
- details of the birds you keep (species, number you usually keep, what you keep them for)
- how many birds of each species you usually keep each month (your stocking arrangements)
After you have registered
If youve registered but your details change, youll need to tell? APHA within a month?if:?
- you no longer keep or own birds
- the contact information you gave changes
- the size of your flock changes by 20%or more
- you change the species you keep
Email your changes to ?customer.registration@apha.gov.uk or call on 03000 200 301. Lines are open 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday.
Get help
If you need help completing registration forms, contact the Customer Registration Team:
- by phone on 03000 200 301 lines are open 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday
- by email atcustomer.registration@apha.gov.uk
Disease alerts
You do not need to sign up to receive disease alerts for notifiable poultry diseases if youve registered as a poultry keeper.
To receive email and text alerts for other exotic notifiable diseases, register with the APHAalerts service.
Pollution prevention and control (PPC) permits
If your premises can hold more than 40,000 birds, you may need to apply for aPPCpermit. Read guidance from:
- the Environment Agency if you farm in England
- the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) if you farm in Scotland
- Natural Resources Wales if you farm in Wales