Unique identifier: PB7274

This welfare code – for laying hens – does not lay down statutory requirements. However, livestock farmers and employers are required by law to ensure that all those attending to their livestock are familiar with, and have access to, the relevant codes. Although the main aim of the welfare codes is to encourage farmers to adopt high standards of husbandry, they may also be used to back up legislative requirements. Where a person is charged with a welfare offence, failure to comply with the provisions of a welfare code may be relied on by the prosecution to establish guilt. 

Further information

• Animal welfare

Downloads

18 April 2011

• Code of recommendations for the welfare of livestock: laying hens (pdf, 105 KB)