Animal movements and registration

Guidance and services

• Livestock registrations and movement reporting during coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Livestock keepers should continue to follow regulatory livestock reporting and registration requirements.
• Cattle tags: when will Bovine Electronic Identification be introduced
  The introduction of Bovine Electronic Identification (EID) in Wales will be later than anticipated.
• Cattle identification and passports
  You must identify and register all cattle with the British Cattle Movement Service within 27 days of birth.
• Cattle herd register booklet
  Explains why you need to keep a herd register and and how to download our recommended booklet.
• Cattle movements
  Cattle movements take place when live cattle move on or off a holding.
• Farm scheme inspections: cattle herd register booklet
  Farmers can use this form to accurately record cattle and their movements.
• General movement licence: cattle
  Cattle owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move cattle.
• Reporting and recording of cattle deaths on your holding
  If cattle die on your holding, rather than at slaughter, you must record and report the death to British Cattle Movement System (BCMS).
• Bovine TB: moving cattle, which have not had a pre-movement or post-movement TB test, to or from common land
  Follow these conditions to move cattle to or from common land without a pre-movement or post-movement TB test.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle from a non-exempt show
  Follow these conditions to move cattle from a non-exempt show.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle to a non-exempt show
  Follow these conditions to move cattle to a non-exempt show.
• Bovine TB: moving cattle from an accredited herd into the low TB area
  Follow these conditions to move cattle from an accredited herd into the low TB area.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• General licence to move bovine animals to or from common land
  Legislation
  Licence to move bovine animals which have not been subjected to a pre-movement or post movement TB test.