Animal Plant Health Agency
You must register where you keep livestock, including those kept as pets. This is so that the government can trace the animals to prevent and control disease.
The first step is to get a county parish holding (CPH) number.
You must then register with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to get a flock or herd mark.
If you plan to keep livestock on someone elses land, or in their buildings, temporarily, you must also get either a:
- temporary land association (TLA)
- temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number
You cannot apply for a TLA or tCPH if your livestock will mix with someone elses. Instead, youll both need to report the movement and record it in your holding registers.
You must also get a TLA or tCPH if you have a 7000 series landless keeper CPH number. You may have this type of CPH number if you do not own the land where you keep livestock.
You do not need a TLA or tCPH if you have a 7000 series landless keeper CPH number and you only keep poultry. Find out about registration rules for poultry and other captive birds.
When to get a TLA
A TLA is for land or buildings that:
- are within 10 miles of the main area you keep livestock
- you do not own
- are in England or Wales
- are in the same bovine TB risk area as your CPH (if you keep bovine animals)
You must also be the only person who keeps livestock on the land or in the building.
If you have a piece of land that is in both England and Scotland, you cannot get a TLA for any part of that land.
Do not apply for a TLA if you want to register, and will operate, your temporary holding separately from your existing CPH number. Apply for a tCPH number instead.
Apply for a tCPH instead if the land you wish to use is in a different TB risk area from your CPH number. Find a map of bovine TB risk areas on TB hub.
What you must do when you have a TLA
A TLA associates the land or building youre using temporarily to your existing CPH number.
This means you can treat the land or building as part of the CPH its associated with.
You do not need to:
- record or report livestock movements between the TLA land or building and the rest of yourCPH
- follow the standstill rule if youre moving livestock between the TLA land or building and the rest of your CPH
You must still:
- follow the standstill rule if youre moving livestock from the TLA land or building to a differentCPH
- report any livestock movements to the TLA land or building from a differentCPH
Use your CPH number to report the movements. You must also record the movements in your holding register. Find out more about reporting and recording:
Your TLA land or building will be treated as part of your CPHfor disease testing and restrictions.
ATLAwill share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:
- do not need to order different identification tags for livestock kept on aTLA
- must use yourCPHnumber when you order new or replacement tags
When to get a tCPH
A tCPH is for land and buildings:
- more than 10 miles from the main area you keep livestock
- in England or Wales
- that you do not own
- that are not in more than one CPH
- that are all rented from the same landowner (if its a group of fields or buildings)
You must also be the only person who keeps livestock on the land or in the building.
What you must do when you have a tCPH
You must treat the land included in your tCPH as separateto the land included in any otherCPHyou hold. This means that you must:
- keep a separate holding register
- keep livestock reported as being on yourtCPHseparate from those reported as being on any otherCPH
- record and report livestock movements between yourtCPHand any otherCPH
- follow the standstill rule when you move livestock between yourtCPHand any other CPH
- keep identification documents and cattle passports for livestock you move to yourtCPH
AtCPHwill share a flock or herd mark with your CPH. This means that you:
- do not need to order different identification tags for animals kept on atCPH
- must use yourCPHnumber when you order new or replacement tags
Bovine TB testing andtCPHs
You must follow the routine bovine TB testing interval for the bovine TB risk area that applies to your